Apple ‘Millicent Barnes’ (8)   

Millicent Barnes:   Eating apple.  1903

Fruits have firm, fine-textured, crisp, juicy flesh which is slightly acid and lacking flavour. 

An apple developed from a cross between Gacoyne’s Scarlet and Cox’s Orange Pippin by N.F. Barnes in 1903, the head gardener to the Duke of Westminster, at Eaton Hall, Chester, Cheshire.

The Barnes family lived on the Duke’s estate at Eccleston 

Named after his daughter. Millicent Barnes, later Millicent Witter lived on the Wirral.  

Introduced by Clibrans Ltd.  Hale, Altringham, Cheshire