Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Lord Derby
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Witham, Stockport, Cheshire. It was first recorded in 1862. Fruits are rather coarse textured, somewhat dry with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
Offspring in the atlas
- Eynsham Challenger × Blenheim Orange; United Kingdom, 1935
- Upton Pyne × Charles Ross; United Kingdom, by 1910
Sources
- Lord Derby (accession 1978 - 300), 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 (late september); the other names.
- 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, Forester and Woodford, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
