Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Gloucester Royal
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1930 at Dursley, Gloucestershire, by J.W. Thornhill. It was introduced in 1956 by Matthews Fruit Trees Ltd., Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Fruits have coarse flesh with a sweet and insipid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Gloucester Royal United Kingdom, about 1930
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Gloucester Royal (accession 1957 - 012), 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 (mid october).
