FROGMORE PROLIFIC

Apple

FROGMORE PROLIFIC

Origin & History Raised in the Royal Gardens at Frogmore by Mr. Ingram. Now little grown.

Tree Growth moderate and fertile. Leaf oval, bluntly pointed, finely serrate.

Fruit

Size and Form Medium. 3 by 2½ inches. Round, conical, regular.

Skin Greenish-yellow, dusted with red and broad broken stripes.

Flesh and Flavor Soft, white, sub-acid.

Stem and Cavity Stem long, inserted in a deepish cavity.

Calyx and Basin Eye closed, set in a shallow even basin.

Core and Seeds Not described in source.

Season September to December.

Uses Culinary.

Subtypes & Variants Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 3 catalogs (1900–1911) from England, Illinois

Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
James Veitch & Sons , Ltd., Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, London (also Coombe Wood, Langley, and Feltham) , England — 1911

View original book sources (1)

FROGMORE PROLIFIC. Culinary, September to December, medium, 3 by 2½, round, conical, regular. Colour, greenish-yellow, dusted with red and broad broken stripes. Flesh, soft, white, sub-acid. Eye, closed, in a shallow even basin. Stem, long, in a deepish cavity. Growth, moderate; fertile. Leaf, oval, bluntly pointed, finely serrate. Origin, raised in the Royal Gardens at Frogmore, by Mr. Ingram. Now little grown.

— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

Fertile de Frogmore Fruchtbarer von Frogmore