Beauty of Kent

A popular English Victorian cooking apple.

Origin: Kent UK, 1820

Pollination: Beauty of Kent is a self-sterile triploid and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners

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History and description of Beauty of Kent

Unknown origin but presumed to have arisen in Kent, UK. First recorded 1790. Received RHS Award of Merit 1901. Grown in Victorian England.

Large, round-conical fruit. Bright red flush and stripes over greenish yellow skin. The sharp, juicy, flesh cooks to a pale creamy yellow puree requiring little added sugar. Acidity fades in storage making it suitable for use as a dessert apple by December. Moderately vigorous tree. Good, precocious cropper.

Characteristics of Beauty of Kent apple trees

Use	Culinary
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Sharp
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Late Sep/Early Oct
Season of use	Oct-Jan
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright-spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Pollination date	11
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile triploid
Pollinators	Pollination partners