Melrose (2) apple

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

Raised by Freeman S. Howlett at Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA. Selected in 1937 and introduced in 1944. Fruits have creamy white, moderately firm, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh, with a pleasant sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic flavour.

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

Melrose (2) United States, by 1937
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
  - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
    - Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Offspring in the atlas

Sources

Melrose (2) (accession 1952 - 019), 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 (early october); 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, Jonathan and Delicious, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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Offspring in the atlas

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