Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Laxton's Early Crimson
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1908 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and introduced by them in 1931. Fruits have rather coarse flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Laxton's Early Crimson United Kingdom, 1908
- Seed parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Pollen parent Gladstone
- Seed parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
Offspring in the atlas
- Merton Knave × Epicure; United Kingdom, 1948
Sources
- Laxton's Early Crimson (accession 1975 - 304), 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); the other names.
