The queen of the rennets is a variety of relatively old Pomme, whose maturity intervenes at the end of the summer - beginning of autumn.

INRA of Angers obtained about 1975 a mutant characterized by a more intense coloring and an early maturity. Its name is Belrène .

Pollination

The Queen of the rennets is particularly recommended in all the Verger S because it allows Polliniser many other varieties. It itself is pollinated by “Granny Smith”, “Golden delicious”, 'Starking Delicious.

Description of the tree

• Wood: very extremely.
• Branches: generally very few, slightly spread out, of largest and longest, very géniculé S and very cottony, russet-red greenish washed of slate-coloured red.
• Lenticel S: lengthened, very-large, abundant.
• Bearings: very arisen.
• Eyes: large, ovoid, blunt, plated on the bark and covers of sleeping bag.
• Sheet S: excessively large, oval, somewhat fluffy and brownish green in top, greenish white in lower part, courtement acuminate and deeply toothed.
• Petiole: short, very nourished, tomenteux, seldom grooved.
• Stipulates S: longer and broader.
• Fertility: Ordinary. Good pollinating.

Culture

For Hardy fruit-tree, Clerc's Office close-cropped ground, this apple tree is appropriate admirably and made trees for quite right stem. In dwarf forms, it thrives rather well but request to be scutellate on Pommier Paradise, subject which makes it more productive while reducing the excess of its vegetation. The variety has a strong tendency to Alternance. Obtained in Holland, the tree is rustic and supports the rather cold climates of the North of Europe.

Description of the fruit

The fruit yellow is striated with red. Its pale, fine flesh yellow juicy, crunching and acidulous is very pleasant to crunch. It is a variety particularly indicated for tarts, in particular for the tarts tatins.

• Size: average
• Form: cylinder-conical, slightly depressed on a side to each one of its ends.
• Stalk: of average length, extremely, especially at the base, obliquely inserted in narrow and deep basin.
• Eye: large, mi-clos, with very vast cavity whose edges are generally plain.
• Skin: enough thick, slightly rough, abundantly punctuated of gray, at yellow bottom chechmate. covered partly, on the side of the shade, a fine layer of deer, then washed or mouchetée of clear red to the insolation, where she in addition to is slightly whipped of carmine and réticulée russet-red olivâtre.
• Flesh; blanchâtre, marrowy, with tight grain.
• Water: sufficient, sweetened, délicieusement acidulated and scented.
• Maturity: December-March
• Quality: First.

History

Our Queen of the Rennets - whose primitive name appears to have been " Kroon Renet" , pertaining to the Batavian language and meaning " Rennet of Couronne" - was born about 1770. The Holland, where for a long time one cultivates several varieties of Kroons apples, is looked by the pomologist German Diel like the country originating in this one, that it described in 1802. It had received it $the Hague under the label Kroon Renet.

External bonds

• To obtain grafts of Queen of the rennets

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