Apple varieties, United Kingdom
George Neal
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1904 by Mrs Reeves at Otford, Kent and introduced by R. Neal & Sons, Wandsworth, London in 1923. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1923. Fruits have rather soft, juicy and acid flesh. It cooks well, breaking up almost completely.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- George Neal United Kingdom, 1904
- Parent Fearn's Pippin United Kingdom, before 1780
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
Sources
- George Neal (accession 1924 - 033), 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 (early 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 parents, Fearn's Pippin and Alexander, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
