Beauty of Bath
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Beauty of Bath is a dessert apple
cultivar
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It was propagated in 1864 by George Cooling and awarded an RHS First class Certificate in 1887.
Beauty of Bath is a very early dessert apple usually cropping in August but can crop as early as July (e.g. in 2011) or last into September. It bruises easily leading to brown rot so is best picked by hand. Fruits do drop early by themselves often when not completely ripe. Traditionally straw was placed under the trees to lessen damage to falling fruit.
The fruit is sharp at first but sweetens later, the flesh is white but sometimes has a red flush under the skin (approximately 20% occurrence noticed in 2011 in one orchard).
The tree is in flowering group 2 with pale pink blossom and medium to large, blue green, leaves.
Apple
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...
cultivar
Cultivar
A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...
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It was propagated in 1864 by George Cooling and awarded an RHS First class Certificate in 1887.
Beauty of Bath is a very early dessert apple usually cropping in August but can crop as early as July (e.g. in 2011) or last into September. It bruises easily leading to brown rot so is best picked by hand. Fruits do drop early by themselves often when not completely ripe. Traditionally straw was placed under the trees to lessen damage to falling fruit.
The fruit is sharp at first but sweetens later, the flesh is white but sometimes has a red flush under the skin (approximately 20% occurrence noticed in 2011 in one orchard).
The tree is in flowering group 2 with pale pink blossom and medium to large, blue green, leaves.