Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Emneth Early
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by William Lynn, Emneth, Cambridgeshire. It was first recorded in 1899 and introduced by Cross of Wisbech. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits are crisp, firm and very acid. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Emneth Early United Kingdom, by 1899
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
Offspring in the atlas
- Eastbourne Pippin × Beauty of Bath; United Kingdom, 1930
- Golden Bounty × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, about 1940
Sources
- Emneth Early (accession 1975 - 321), 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 august); 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 parents, Hawthornden and Keswick Codlin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
