Applevariety
Hume
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1898, introduced in 1921 and selected in 1916; sweet and soft. Picked in early October.
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Origin · Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1921
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 74.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Hume began
Recorded origin
Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Selected
- 1916
- Released
- 1921
Hume’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Hume
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
McIntosh → HumeParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 74.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped