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Apple varieties, United States

Double Red Northern Spy

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

A sport of Northern Spy having a solid, bright red flush. It was discovered in about 1895 by William S. Greene, Victor, New York, USA. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant flavour.

Family tree

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

Double Red Northern Spy United States, about 1895
- Sport of Northern Spy United States, about 1800

Where Double Red Northern Spy came from.

Sources

Double Red Northern Spy (accession 1950 - 151), 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).