Loop Wealthy apple

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

A tetraploid bud sport of Wealthy producing larger fruits. Originated in the orchard of G.C. Smith & Sons, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The parent tree was planted in about 1909 and acquired in 1947 by New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Fruits have rather soft but juicy flesh with a sweet and faint vinous flavour.

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

Loop Wealthy United States, by 1947
- Sport of Wealthy United States, about 1860
  - Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
    - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
  - Parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier

Sources

Loop Wealthy (accession 1974 - 263), 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 september); the other names.

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