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Apple varieties, United States

Sharon

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

Raised in 1906 by S.A. Beach, Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, USA. Introduced in 1922. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish green flesh with a sweet flavour.

Family tree

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

Sharon United States, 1906
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Glogerovka

Where Sharon came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada).

Sources

Sharon (accession 1923 - 073), 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 october).