Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Bushey Grove
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1897 by Mrs Good, Bushey Grove, Hertfordshire and introduced in about 1926 by G.W. King, Sidcup, Kent. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1922. This variety is very prone to apple scab. Fruits have very soft, coarse-textured, juicy flesh which is rather acid. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Bushey Grove United Kingdom, 1897
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
Sources
- Bushey Grove (accession 1924 - 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 (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, Alexander and Dumelow's Seedling, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
