Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Dumelow's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Mr Dumelow (or Dumeller) at Shakerstone, Leicestershire. The original tree was growing in 1800. It was exhibited as Dumelow’s Crab in 1818, and renamed Wellington in 1819 or 1820. Fruits have very firm, crisp, juicy flesh which is extremely acid. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
Offspring in the atlas
- Baron Ward United Kingdom, 1850
- Belvoir Seedling × Annie Elizabeth; United Kingdom, by 1935
- Bushey Grove × Aport; United Kingdom, 1897
- Cottenham Seedling × Bess Pool; United Kingdom, by 1924
- Hounslow Wonder United Kingdom, by 1910
- Mary Barnett × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, about 1920
- Monarch × Peasgood's Nonsuch; United Kingdom, 1888
- Schoolmaster × Golden Noble; United Kingdom, by about 1880
- Thomas Rivers × Mother; United Kingdom, by 1892
Sources
- Dumelow's Seedling (accession 2000 - 033), 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); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
