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Apple varieties, United States

Nured Rome

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

A more highly coloured clone of Rome Beauty. Originated in 1927 with J.A. Snyder in Van Husen Orchard, Wenatchee, Washington, USA. Introduced in 1943. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh but with little flavour.

Family tree

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

Nured Rome United States, 1927
- Sport of Rome Beauty United States, by 1848

Where Nured Rome came from. The lines lead to its parents: Rome Beauty (United States).

Sources

Nured Rome (accession 1967 - 079), 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); the other names.