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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Laxton's Leader

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

Raised in 1905 by Laxton Bros., at Bedford. Fruits have fairly firm, fine flesh with a sweet and slightly acid flavour.

Family tree

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

Laxton's Leader United Kingdom, 1905
- Seed parent Gladstone
- Pollen parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
  - Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678

Where Laxton's Leader came from. The lines lead to its parents: Worcester Pearmain (United Kingdom).

Sources

Laxton's Leader (accession 1957 - 245), 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.