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Apple varieties, Canada

Red Melba

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

A more highly coloured clone of Melba. Originated at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada in about 1936. Introduced in 1940. Fruits have firm, crisp, white, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour.

Family tree

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

Red Melba Canada, about 1936
- Sport of Melba Canada, 1898
  - Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
  - Pollen parent Tetofsky

Offspring in the atlas

Quinte × Crimson Beauty (Canada); Canada, by 1964

Where Red Melba came from.

Sources

Red Melba (accession 1973 - 161), 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 august); the other names.