Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Schoolmaster
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Said to have been raised from seed of a Canadian apple in Old Stamford Grammar School garden or in Herefordshire. Introduced in about 1880 by Thomas Laxton. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1880. Fruits have tender, coarse, greenish white flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Schoolmaster United Kingdom, by about 1880
- Parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
- Parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
Sources
- Schoolmaster (accession 1920 - 017), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; 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.
- 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, Golden Noble and Dumelow's Seedling, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
