Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Aldwick Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A seedling which arose in the garden of Mrs D.M. Alford, Aldwick, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1969. Fruits are sweet but tend to be rather dry.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Aldwick Beauty United Kingdom, by 1969
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
- Parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
Sources
- Aldwick Beauty (accession 1970 - 001), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid august).
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Beauty of Bath and Worcester Pearmain, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
