Barry

Barry, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1901 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Geneva, New York, United States, by 1936
Raised by: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Parentage: McIntosh × Cox's Orange Pippin Found from SNP data by Muranty and others (2020), which does not tell which bore the seed. The National Fruit Collection records McIntosh × Cox's Orange Pippin
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium-large, flat globose fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour brown
Flesh: Greenish; firm, coarse
Flavour: Sweet, aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid

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

Raised at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, U.S.A. Selected in 1936 and introduced commercially in 1957. Fruits are firm and sweet with an aromatic flavour.

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

Barry United States, by 1936
- Parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
  - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
  - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
    - Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s

Where Barry came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada) and Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

Barry (accession 1958 - 018), 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 (mid september).
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, McIntosh and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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