Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Montfort
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1928 at Woodford Green, Essex. Fruits have firm, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Montfort United Kingdom, about 1928
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Rome Beauty United States, by 1848
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
Sources
- Montfort (accession 1947 - 480), 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 (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, Jonathan and Rome Beauty, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
