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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Dalice

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

Raised between 1933 and 1937 by A.C. Nash, Scutes Farm, Hastings, Sussex. Fruits have coarse, soft, dry flesh with a subacid to sweet, insipid flavour.

Family tree

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

Dalice United Kingdom, between 1933 and 1937
- 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

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

Sources

Dalice (accession 1949 - 088), 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).