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Apple varieties, United States

Alton

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

Raised in 1923 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1938. Fruits are similar in flavour to McIntosh.

Family tree

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

Alton United States, 1923
- Seed parent Early McIntosh United States, 1909
  - Seed parent White Transparent Russia, by 1852
    - Parent Aspa
    - Parent Saint Germain
  - Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent New York 845 (Red Canada

Where Alton came from.

Sources

Alton (accession 1966 - 035), 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 (late august).