Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Ruby (Seabrook)
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd., Boreham, Essex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1936. Fruits have rather soft, creamy white with pink tinge flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Ruby (Seabrook) United Kingdom, by 1936
- Parent Bismarck
- Parent Wealthy United States, about 1860
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
- Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
- Parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier
- Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
Sources
- Ruby (Seabrook) (accession 1936 - 026), 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 september).
- 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, Bismarck and Wealthy, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
