Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Gascoyne's Scarlet
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Mr Gascoyne at Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent. It was introduced in 1871 by nurseryman G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, slightly juicy, sweet flesh with very little flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Gascoyne's Scarlet United Kingdom, by 1871
- Parent Cornish Aromatic United Kingdom, by 1813
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
Offspring in the atlas
- Arthur W. Barnes × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1902
- Fred Webb × Winter Marigold; United Kingdom, about 1935
- Millicent Barnes × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, about 1903
- Oxford Beauty × Scarlet Nonpareil; United Kingdom, by 1944
5 varieties in the atlas descend from Gascoyne's Scarlet.
Sources
- Gascoyne's Scarlet (accession 1957 - 181), 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 (late september); 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, Cornish Aromatic and Alexander, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
