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Apple varieties, United States

Loop Spy

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

A tetraploid bud mutation of Northern Spy. It was discovered in 1925 in an orchard of A.I. Loop, North East, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Fruits are larger, softer and more subject to bitter pit than its parent.

Family tree

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

Loop Spy United States, 1925
- Sport of Northern Spy United States, about 1800

Where Loop Spy came from. The lines lead to its parents: Northern Spy (United States).

Sources

Loop Spy (accession 1974 - 262), 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 (mid october).