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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Beauty of Hants

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

Raised in the garden of Mrs Eyre Crabbe at Basset, Southampton prior to 1850. It is said to be a seedling from Blenheim Orange open-pollinated. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour similar to Blenheim Orange.

Family tree

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

Beauty of Hants United Kingdom, before 1850
- Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
  - Parent Reinette de Hollande

Where Beauty of Hants came from. The lines lead to its parents: Blenheim Orange (United Kingdom).

Sources

Beauty of Hants (accession 1924 - 054), 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 october); the other names.