Ontario
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Charles Arnold at Paris, Ontario, Canada in about 1820. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1898. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well, breaking up completely. Tends to bruise easily.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Ontario Canada, about 1820
- Parent Wagener United States, 1791
- Parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Offspring in the atlas
- Geneva Ontario United States
- Herma × Jonathan; Germany, 1930s
- Juno × London Pippin; Germany, by 1971
- Schweizer Orange × Cox's Orange Pippin; Switzerland, 1935
5 varieties in the atlas descend from Ontario.
Sources
- Ontario (accession 1923 - 058), 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 parents, Wagener and Northern Spy, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
