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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Advance

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised at Bedford by Laxton Bros. Ltd., in 1908 and introduced by them in 1929. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1932. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour. Trees tend to be prone to mildew and canker.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Advance United Kingdom, 1908
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
  - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
  - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
    - Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Pollen parent Gladstone

Where Advance came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

Advance (accession 1962 - 020), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early august); the other names.