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Apple varieties, United States

Rogers McIntosh

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

A more highly coloured sport of McIntosh. Originated before 1930 at Densville, New York, USA, with Isaac C. Rogers. Introduced in 1932. Fruits have white, rather soft, fine-textured, very juicy flesh with a sweet, pleasant vinous flavour.

Family tree

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

Rogers McIntosh United States, before 1930
- Sport of McIntosh Canada, 1811

Offspring in the atlas

Estiva × Usta Gorria; France, 1957

Sources

Rogers McIntosh (accession 1979 - 167), 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); the other names.