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Apple varieties, Netherlands

Jan Steen

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

Raised at the Plant Breeding Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1955. Fruits have fairly crisp, fine flesh with a slightly acid flavour.

Family tree

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

Jan Steen Netherlands, by 1955
- Seed parent Sternreinette (Reinette Rouge Etoilee)
- Pollen parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
  - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
  - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
    - Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s

Where Jan Steen came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

Jan Steen (accession 1955 - 009), 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 october).