Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Maidstone Favourite
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. It received an Award of Merit in 1913 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a pleasant distinctive flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Maidstone Favourite United Kingdom, by 1913
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
Sources
- Maidstone Favourite (accession 1924 - 001), 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 august).
- 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, Alexander and Beauty of Bath, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
