Apple varieties, United Kingdom
New Bess Pool
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised before 1850 by J. Stevens at Stanton-by-Dale, Yorkshire. Fruits have crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- New Bess Pool United Kingdom, before 1850
- Seed parent Bess Pool United Kingdom, by 1824
Sources
- New Bess Pool (accession 1929 - 036), 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 (late 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
