Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Joybells
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Will Tayler at Godalming, Surrey. Records show that trees were grafted in about 1914. It received an Award of Merit from the RHS in 1922. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a sweet and pleasant flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Joybells United Kingdom, by about 1914
- Parent Queen United Kingdom, 1858
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- 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
- Parent Queen United Kingdom, 1858
Sources
- Joybells (accession 1957 - 183), 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 (late september); 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 parents, Queen and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
