National Fruit Collection

{{Short description|Collection of fruit cultivars}}

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| location = Brogdale, Kent, England

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| owner = Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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The United Kingdom's National Fruit Collection is one of the largest collections of fruit trees and plants in the world. Over 2,040 varieties of apple, 502 of pear, 350 of plum, 322 of cherry and smaller collections of bush fruits, nuts and grapes are grown, in {{convert|150|acre|ha}} of orchards.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5242788.stm British Broadcasting Corporation : 17 August 2006 : A Tour Around Kent's Garden of Eden] Retrieved 26 June 2010

It has been curated and maintained at Brogdale Farm, Brogdale, Kent since 1952 and is owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).{{cite web|title=National Fruit Collection|url=http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/index.php|website=www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk|accessdate=25 September 2017|language=en-AU}} The University of Reading took over day-to-day maintenance of the collection in 2008.{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Sophie|title=National Fruit Collection in tug of love|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3346256/National-Fruit-Collection-in-tug-of-love.html|accessdate=25 September 2017|date=2008}}

The collection includes two trees or bushes of each variety, in case one is lost.