Apple varieties, United Kingdom
September Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Laxton Bros. at Bedford, England. Recorded in 1885 in which year it received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have coarse, loose, creamy white flesh with a fairly sweet flavour.
Sources
- September Beauty (accession 2000 - 089), 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 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
