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Apple varieties, United States

Ames

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

Raised at Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A by H.L. Lantz. It was introduced in the 1920s. Fruits have soft, fine, juicy flesh with a sweet, vinous flavour.

Family tree

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

Ames United States, by the 1920s
- Seed parent Allen's Choice
- Pollen parent Perry Russet

Where Ames came from.

Sources

Ames (accession 1922 - 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 september).