Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cissy
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised between 1750 and 1800 by Mr Tamplin or Tampling of Malpas, Newport, Monmouthshire and distributed by his sister Cissy. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1902 as Tamplin. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
Sources
- Cissy (accession 1950 - 083), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early september); the other names.
- 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
