Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Shoesmith
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by George Carpenter at Byfleet, Surrey, England. First exhibited in 1930. Fruits have very white, tinged green, soft, very juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Shoesmith United Kingdom, by 1930
- Seed parent Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Pollen parent Golden Noble United Kingdom, by 1803
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
- Seed parent Lane's Prince Albert United Kingdom, about 1840
Sources
- Shoesmith (accession 1957 - 270), 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); 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
