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.Sir Isaac Newton's Tree at Orange Pippin
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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, although it is known to have produced only one apple. , this cultivar is available at Antique Apple Orchard Inc, Sweet Home, Oregon.
According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to the ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation.
The National Fruit Collection at BrogdaleBrogdale – Home of the National Fruit Collection contains an example, listed as "Isaac Newton's Tree" (1948-729).
References
External links A Brief History of Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree at Woolsthorpe Manor