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Apple varieties, United States

Davey

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

Discovered in 1928 by S. Lothrop Davenport in North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA. Introduced in 1950. Fruits have firm, slightly coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and perfumed flavour.

Family tree

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

Davey United States, 1928
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811

Where Davey came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada).

Sources

Davey (accession 1952 - 044), 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 (late september).