Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Feltham Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised and introduced by Veitch’s Nursery, Langley, Bucks. First described in 1908. It received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1908. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid and sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Feltham Beauty United Kingdom, by 1908
- Seed 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
- Pollen parent Gladstone
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Feltham Beauty (accession 1921 - 083), 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 (mid august).
- 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).
