The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Australia

Ballarat Seedling

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

Found at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the garden of Mrs Stewart. Known in the early 1900s. Fruits have coarse, hard flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Ballarat Seedling Australia, by the early 1900s
Dunn's Seedling Ballarat Seedling
Where Ballarat Seedling came from. The lines lead to its parents: Dunn's Seedling (Australia).

Sources

  1. Ballarat Seedling (accession 1930 - 057), 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 october); the other names.

  • Cripps Pink

    Bred by John Cripps from a 1973 cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious; top-grade fruit is sold as Pink Lady

    Australia, 1973

  • Cripps Red

    Cripps Pink's sister seedling from a 1973 cross at Stoneville, Western Australia: very late, very firm and tangy

    Australia, 1973

  • Photograph of Democrat apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Democrat

    Australia, about 1900

  • Photograph of Dunn's Seedling apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Dunn's Seedling

    Australia, by 1890

  • Photograph of Geeveston Fanny apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Geeveston Fanny

    Australia, by 1880

  • Photograph of Glengyle Red apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Glengyle Red

    Australia, 1914

  • Watercolour painting of Granny Smith apples by Royal Charles Steadman.

    Granny Smith

    From Maria Ann Smith's orchard near Sydney; by 1975 it made up 39 per cent of Australia's apple crop

    Australia, 1868

  • Coloured plate of King Cole apples from J. Lindley.

    King Cole

    Australia, by 1912

All 16 varieties from Australia