Skip to content

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Celt

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

Raised in 1943 by David Harris at Melksham, Wiltshire. Fruits have fine, sweet flesh.

Family tree

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

Celt United Kingdom, 1943
- Seed 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
- Pollen parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
  - Parent Reinette de Hollande

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

Sources

Celt (accession 1951 - 221), 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).