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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Polly Prosser

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

Raised in 1946 by J.H. Cooper, Maidstone, Kent. Fruits have firm, coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, subacid, rich flavour.

Family tree

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

Polly Prosser United Kingdom, 1946
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
  - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
  - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
    - Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Pollen parent Duke of Devonshire United Kingdom, 1835

Where Polly Prosser came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom) and Duke of Devonshire (United Kingdom).

Sources

Polly Prosser (accession 1961 - 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 (early october).