Apple varieties, United Kingdom
South Park
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1940 by W. Barkway, gardener at South Park, Penshurst, Kent. Fruits have crisp, cream tinged green flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- South Park United Kingdom, about 1940
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Pollen parent Winter Queening United Kingdom, by 1814
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- South Park (accession 1950 - 064), 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).
