The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Atalanta (Netherlands)

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

Raised in 1935 by Professor Sprenger at Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have firm flesh with an aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Atalanta (Netherlands) Netherlands, 1935
Cox's Orange Pippin Atalanta (Netherlands)
Where Atalanta (Netherlands) came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Atalanta (Netherlands) (accession 1955 - 013), 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 september); the other names.

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