Melrose
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
Firm, honey-sweet keeping apple that lasts into early summer.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicysweet
Susceptibility & resistance
ScabCankerPowdery mildew
Profile
- Parentage
- Jonathan x Red Delicious
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 223.7 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Tasty dessert apple with a good rating (grade 2).
Growth
Vigorous with a late, alternating start to cropping; needs a cool, airy climate.
Notes
Very good keeper, storable for roughly seven to eight months; suited to orchard meadow and home garden.
Care
needs a cool, airy climate.
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