Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Laxton's Rearguard
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1907 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. Fruits have firm flesh with a slightly aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Laxton's Rearguard United Kingdom, 1907
- Parent Court Pendu Plat France, before 1613
- 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
Sources
- Laxton's Rearguard (accession 1949 - 291), 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 october).
- 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, Court Pendu Plat and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
