Applevariety
Seaton House
Also known as Niton House
Niton House
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1860; tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Seaton House, Arbroath, Scotland
Released 1860
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.50 mmHeight 52.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Seaton House began
Recorded origin
Seaton House, Arbroath, Scotland
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1860
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 66.50 mm
- height
- 52.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Niton House
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.