Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Braintree Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1930 by Mrs Humphreys, Braintree, Essex. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Braintree Seedling United Kingdom, 1930
- Seed parent Gladstone
Sources
- Braintree Seedling (accession 1954 - 028), 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).
