Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Howgate Wonder
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1915-16 by G. Wratton at Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. It was introduced in 1932 by Stuart Low Co. Received an Award of merit from the RHS in 1929. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh which is quite sweet when ripe with a faint aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Howgate Wonder United Kingdom, 1915-16
- Parent Annie Elizabeth United Kingdom, about 1857
- Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Seed parent Blenheim Orange United Kingdom, about 1740
- Parent Peasgood's Nonsuch United Kingdom, about 1858
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Parent Annie Elizabeth United Kingdom, about 1857
Sources
- Howgate Wonder (accession 1962 - 016), 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 october).
- 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, Annie Elizabeth and Peasgood's Nonsuch, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
