Skip to content

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Duke of Devonshire

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

Raised in 1835 by Wilson, gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Holker Hall, Lancashire. It was introduced in about 1875. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, rather dry flesh with a rich, nutty flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Polly Prosser × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1946

Where Duke of Devonshire came from.

Sources

Duke of Devonshire (accession 2000 - 032), 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 october); the other names.