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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Hounslow Wonder

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

Introduced by Spooner, nurseryman of Hounslow, Middlesex. It was recorded in 1910 when it also received an Award of Merit from the RHS. Fruits have fine, firm, crisp flesh with an acid flavour.

Family tree

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

Hounslow Wonder United Kingdom, by 1910
- Seed parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
  - Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826

Where Hounslow Wonder came from.

Sources

Hounslow Wonder (accession 1941 - 030), 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 september).