Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Robert Blatchford
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by F. Chilvers, nurseryman, Hunstanton, Norfolk. Introduced in 1914. Keeps its shape when cooked.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Robert Blatchford United Kingdom, by 1914
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
Sources
- Robert Blatchford (accession 1961 - 047), 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).
- 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, Hawthornden and Golden Noble, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
