Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Glebe Gold
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by James Walker, Ham, Surrey. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have soft, creamy white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Glebe Gold United Kingdom, by 1945
- Seed parent Yellow Ingestrie United Kingdom, about 1800
- Seed parent Orange Pippin
- Pollen parent Golden Pippin United Kingdom, by 1629
- Pollen parent Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
- Seed parent Hubbardston Nonsuch United States, by 1832
- Seed parent Yellow Ingestrie United Kingdom, about 1800
Sources
- Glebe Gold (accession 1945 - 013), 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 (late august).
