Vintage Virginia Apples

BARNET (also known as Brown Thorn; Hedgehog) was first grown south of Gloucester, England, in the 1800s. It was propagated and distributed by Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, England in the early 1900s. The fruit is small, turbinate to elliptical, has no stem basin and a shallow calyx basin. The skin is green to yellow-green flushed with orange-red and covered with russet. Its lenticels are conspicuous. The flesh has few stone cells around the core and often has only four carpels. This is an edible perry pear that produces a pleasant low acid, low tannin vintage of average quality. It ripens for an early midseason harvest. Fallen fruits resemble baby hedgehogs! The tree has rather compact growth and is scab-resistant.

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