Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Mary Barnett
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1920 by Mrs Mary Jane Barnett at Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England. Fruits have fine, crisp, green flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Mary Barnett United Kingdom, about 1920
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Mary Barnett (accession 1946 - 014), 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).
- 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, Cox's Orange Pippin and Dumelow's Seedling, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
