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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Crimson Newton

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

A more highly coloured sport of Newton Wonder being almost entirely flushed dull dark crimson. Originated in 1921 with C.H. Dicker, Holwell Bury Fruit Farm, Hertfordshire. Fruits cook very well.

Family tree

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

Crimson Newton United Kingdom, 1921
- Sport of Newton Wonder United Kingdom, introduced about 1887
  - Parent Maharaji
  - Parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826

Sources

Crimson Newton (accession 1957 - 177), 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 october); the other names.