Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Oxford Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Recorded in 1944. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Oxford Beauty United Kingdom, by 1944
- Seed parent Gascoyne's Scarlet United Kingdom, by 1871
- Parent Cornish Aromatic United Kingdom, by 1813
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Pollen parent Scarlet Nonpareil United Kingdom, about 1773
- Seed parent Gascoyne's Scarlet United Kingdom, by 1871
Sources
- Oxford Beauty (accession 1954 - 073), 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 september).
