The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Australia

Dunn's Seedling

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

Said to have been raised by Mr Condor at Kew, Melbourne, Australia. First recorded in the UK in 1890. It was introduced by Mr Munroe. Fruits have crisp, hard flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Dunn's Seedling
Where Dunn's Seedling came from.

Sources

  1. Dunn's Seedling (accession 1953 - 154), 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 (mid october); the other names.
  • Watercolour painting of Ballarat Seedling apples by Ellen Isham Schutt.

    Ballarat Seedling

    Australia, by the early 1900s

  • Cripps Pink

    Bred by John Cripps from a 1973 cross of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious; top-grade fruit is sold as Pink Lady

    Australia, 1973

  • Cripps Red

    Cripps Pink's sister seedling from a 1973 cross at Stoneville, Western Australia: very late, very firm and tangy

    Australia, 1973

  • Photograph of Democrat apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Democrat

    Australia, about 1900

  • Photograph of Geeveston Fanny apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Geeveston Fanny

    Australia, by 1880

  • Photograph of Glengyle Red apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Glengyle Red

    Australia, 1914

  • Watercolour painting of Granny Smith apples by Royal Charles Steadman.

    Granny Smith

    From Maria Ann Smith's orchard near Sydney; by 1975 it made up 39 per cent of Australia's apple crop

    Australia, 1868

  • Coloured plate of King Cole apples from J. Lindley.

    King Cole

    Australia, by 1912

All 16 varieties from Australia