Applevariety
Lord Burghley
Also known as Bergli +2
Bergli · Lord Burghleigh · Lord Burleigh
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, firm and dry. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Burghley, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Released 1865
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 44.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Lord Burghley began
Recorded origin
Burghley, Stamford, Lincolnshire
- Released
- 1865
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 44.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Bergli, Lord Burghleigh, Lord Burleigh
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.