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Apple varieties, United States

Julyred

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

Raised by G.W. Schneider at New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, USA. Fruits have soft, white, juicy flesh with a vinous flavour.

Family tree

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

Julyred United States
- Seed parent Petrel
- Pollen parent Early McIntosh United States, 1909
  - Seed parent White Transparent Russia, by 1852
    - Parent Aspa
    - Parent Saint Germain
  - Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811

Offspring in the atlas

Jerseymac × N.J.24; United States, 1956

Where Julyred came from. The lines lead to its parents: Early McIntosh (United States).

Sources

Julyred (accession 1974 - 061), 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 august).