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Byfleet Seedling
type: Culinary
identification: Large, round to round conic. Yellowish-green skin is flushed red on the sun exposed face. The calyx is medium size and open, set in a medium deep and wide basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a shallow, wide, lightly russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy, sharp and aromatic.
uses: Cooking apple.
origins: Developed in the early 1900s by George Carpenter, head gardener at West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey (U.K.) by crossing Bramley’s Seedling with pollen from Lane’s Prince Albert . Introduced in 1915.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: Starting in the early part of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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