National Fruit Collection

Neil Franklin is a trustee and a guide at Brogdale Collections.

Which is near Faversham in Kent in the southeast of England and Brogdale Farm in particular is renowned as being home of the National Fruit Collection.

You offer a service here where you can identify an apple and you have DNA testing for apples.

We were absolutely inundated with apples for that service.

That's the original name for the Comice pear, which originated in France many, many years at the horticultural center there.

The National Fruit Collection says the red Comice is a sport of the original Comice.

Duyenne du Comice, meaning it was developed as a natural mutation.

It just kind of grew.