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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Hunter's Majestic

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

Raised before 1914 by Miss E. Balding at Upwell, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. It was introduced in about 1928 by W. Hunter of Wisbech. Fruits have softish, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Hunter's Majestic United Kingdom, before 1914
- Seed parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
  - Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678

Where Hunter's Majestic came from. The lines lead to its parents: Worcester Pearmain (United Kingdom).

Sources

Hunter's Majestic (accession 1928 - 013), 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).