Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Florence Bennett
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Mrs Florence Bennett, Crosby Green, West Derby, Liverpool as a result of some apple cores being thrown on a garden rubbish heap. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1971. Fruits have fairly firm, juicy flesh with a sweet and lemon flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Florence Bennett United Kingdom, by 1971
- Parent Golden Spire United Kingdom, about 1850
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Manks Codlin Isle of Man, by 1815
- Parent James Grieve United Kingdom, by 1892
- Parent Potts' Seedling United Kingdom, about 1849
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Golden Spire United Kingdom, about 1850
Sources
- Florence Bennett (accession 1972 - 082), 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 september).
- 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, Golden Spire and James Grieve, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
