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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Byfleet Seedling

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

Raised in 1915 by George Carpenter at West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a slightly acid, aromatic flavour. Cooks very well.

Family tree

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

Byfleet Seedling United Kingdom, 1915
- Seed parent Bramley's Seedling United Kingdom, between 1809 and 1815
- Pollen parent Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
  - Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780

Where Byfleet Seedling came from. The lines lead to its parents: Bramley's Seedling (United Kingdom) and Lane's Prince Albert (United Kingdom).

Sources

Byfleet Seedling (accession 1931 - 008), 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).