The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Fireside

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

Originated at Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, Excelsior, USA, by Charles Haralson. It was selected in 1917 and introduced commercially in 1943. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Fireside United States, by 1917
    • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
    • Pollen parent Longfield
McIntosh Fireside
Where Fireside came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada).

Sources

  1. Fireside (accession 1951 - 061), 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).
  2. 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).

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