Flower of Kent
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The Flower of Kent is a green cultivar of cooking apple. It is pear-shaped, mealy, and sub-acid, and of generally poor quality by today's standards. As its name suggests, this cultivar likely originated from Kent, England.[1]
Though now largely gone from commercial cultivation, a handful of Flower of Kent trees remain. Most, if not all, are said to descend from trees at Newton's Woolsthorpe Manor, and nearly all that exist descend from a single tree in East Malling, Kent. One such tree is located in the President's Garden at MIT, although it is known to have produced only one apple.[2] Currently, this cultivar remains available at Antique Apple Orchard Inc. in Sweet Home, Oregon.[3]
According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation.
The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale[4] contains an example, listed as "Isaac Newton's Tree" (1948-729).
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- ↑ Sir Isaac Newton's Tree at Orange Pippin
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- ↑ Brogdale – Home of the National Fruit Collection
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