Apple varieties, United Kingdom
June Crewdson
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated with Bernard Crewdson, Limpsfield, Sussex. It first fruited in 1943. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- June Crewdson United Kingdom, by 1943
- Parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Parent Melba Canada, 1898
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Tetofsky
Sources
- June Crewdson (accession 1944 - 013), 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 august).
- 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, Devonshire Quarrenden and Melba, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
