Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Sissons's Worksop Newtown
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1910 by Mr Sissons, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a subacid to acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Sissons's Worksop Newtown United Kingdom, about 1910
- Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
- Parent York Imperial United States, 1820
- Parent Newtown Pippin United States, early 18th century
Sources
- Sissons's Worksop Newtown (accession 1955 - 143), 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).
- 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, Grimes Golden and York Imperial, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
