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Apple varieties, United States

Ruby Rome Beauty

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

A more highly coloured clone of Rome Beauty. Discovered in about 1912 by M.F. Hubbs, in Hall Orchard, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA. Introduced in 1928. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with little flavour.

Family tree

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

Ruby Rome Beauty United States, about 1912
- Sport of Rome Beauty United States, by 1848

Where Ruby Rome Beauty came from. The lines lead to its parents: Rome Beauty (United States).

Sources

Ruby Rome Beauty (accession 1952 - 040), 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 october); the other names.