Hubbardston Nonsuch

Hubbardston Nonsuch, painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1906 for the US Department of Agriculture. Amanda Almira Newton. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Hubbardston, Massachusetts, United States, by 1832
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, truncate conical fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour brown, streaked
Flesh: White; firm, fine
Flavour: Sweet, subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: American Blush; American No npareille; American Nonpareil; Bespodobnoe habberdstonskoe; de Hubbarston; Farmer's Profit; Hubardston Nonsuch; Hubardston Pippin; Hubbard Stone Nonsuch; Hubbardston; Hubbardston Nonesuch; Hubbardston Old Thown Pippin; Hubbardston Old Town Pippin; Hubbardston Pippin; Hubbardston's Nonesuch; Hubbardston's Sondergleichen; Hubbardstone Nonsuch; Hubbardstone's Nonsuch; Hubbartson Nonesuch; John May; Monstreuse d'Amerique; Non-Pareille de Hubbardston; Nonesuch; Nonpareille de Hubbardston; Nonsuch; Old Thrown Pippin; Old Town Pippin; Orleans; Pomme de Hubbarston; Sans Pareille d'Hubbardston; Sondergleichen von Hubardston; Sondergleichen von Hubbardston; Van Vleet

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

Originated in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, USA. It was first recorded in 1832. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828

21 varieties in the atlas descend from Hubbardston Nonsuch.

Where Hubbardston Nonsuch came from.

Sources

Hubbardston Nonsuch (accession 1948 - 721), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Sources

More from United States