Applevariety
Melon
Also known as Amerikanischer Melonen Apfel +13
Amerikanischer Melonen Apfel · Amerikansk Melonaeble · Arnerikanischer Melonenapfel · Arnerikansk Melon · Melon Apple · Melon d'Arnerique · Melon de Norton · Melon Norton · Norton · Norton Watermelon · Norton's Melon · Pomme Melon d'Amerique · Pomme Norton · Watermelon
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1845; mildly tart, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, USA
Released 1845
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Melon began
Recorded origin
East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, USA
United States
- Released
- 1845
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Amerikanischer Melonen Apfel, Amerikansk Melonaeble, Arnerikanischer Melonenapfel, Arnerikansk Melon, Melon Apple, Melon d'Arnerique, Melon de Norton, Melon Norton, Norton, Norton Watermelon, Norton's Melon, Pomme Melon d'Amerique, Pomme Norton, Watermelon
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Melon apple, cross-sectioned. NFC's description of the apple is: "Originated in about 1800 with Heman Chapin, East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York