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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Hope Cottage Seedling

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised in 1900 by Mrs Oakey at Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Hope Cottage Seedling United Kingdom, 1900
- Seed parent Reine des Reinettes United Kingdom, by 1800
  - Parent Reinette de Hollande

Where Hope Cottage Seedling came from.

Sources

Hope Cottage Seedling (accession 1949 - 021), 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).