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Apple varieties, United States

Dunning

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

Raised in 1923 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York. It was introduced in 1938. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet and faintly perfumed flavour.

Family tree

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

Dunning United States, 1923
- Seed parent Early McIntosh United States, 1909
  - Seed parent White Transparent Russia, by 1852
    - Parent Aspa
    - Parent Saint Germain
  - Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen 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 Dunning came from. The lines lead to its parents: Early McIntosh (United States) and Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

Dunning (accession 1954 - 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 (late august).