Margaret

Margaret, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1892 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: United Kingdom, by 1665
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: August, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour greenish yellow; over-colour much flushed and striped bright red
Flesh: Greenish white
Flavour: Subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: American Red Juneating; Cervene Marketove; d'Eve; Duverson's June; Early June; Early Margaret; Early Red; Early Red Jeneting; Early Red Jenetting; Early Red Juneating; Early Red Margaret; Early Striped Jeneting; Early Striped Jenetting; Early Striped Juneating; Eve; Eve Apple; Eve Apple (Irish); Eve Apple (of Ireland); Eve Apple of the Irish; Geneting; Herr's June; Joanneting; Johaneating; Johanecating; June; Juneating Red; Juneating Rouge; Juneting; Lammas; Maddalene; Madeleine Rouge; Magdalene; Margareten Apfel; Margaretha; Margaretha Apfel; Margaretha Apfel of the Germans; Margarita; Marget; Marget Apple; Marguerite; Marguerite Rouge Precoce; Maudlin; Mela Margarita Rossa; Mugdale; Owen's Golden Beauty; Passe-Pomme d'Ete; Piros Margitalma; Pomme d'Eve; Primiting; Red Early Margaret; Red Joaneting; Red Joanneting; Red June; Red June-eating; Red Juneating; Red Juneting; Red Margaret; Reinette Quarrendon; Roter Jacobs Apfel; Roter Margareten Apfel; Roter Margaretenapfel; Roter Morgareten; Rother Jacob's; Rother Jacob's Apfel; Sommer Traveller; Striped Early Jeneting; Striped Joaneting; Striped Joanneting; Striped Joannetting; Striped June; Striped Juneating; Striped Quarenden; Striped Quarendon; Striped Quarrenden; Striped Quarrendon; Striped Quatford; Summer Pippin; Summer Traveller; Virginia June; White Juneating

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

Originated in England. It was recorded in 1665. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.

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Offspring in the atlas

Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
Hunt's Early × Reinette de Hollande; United Kingdom, by 1884

15 varieties in the atlas descend from Margaret.

Sources

Margaret (accession 1949 - 093), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early august); 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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Offspring in the atlas

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