Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Sowman's Seedling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1914 at the County Horticulture Station, Hutton, Lancashire by Sowman. Introduced and named in 1927 by the Lancashire Agricultural Committee. Acquired by Rivers Nurseries of Sawbridgeworth, Herts. Fruits have fairly firm, fine, yellowish white tinged green flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Sowman's Seedling United Kingdom, 1914
- Parent Catshead United Kingdom, 1600s
- Parent Keswick Codlin United Kingdom, by 1793
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Parent Bismarck
- Parent Catshead United Kingdom, 1600s
Sources
- Sowman's Seedling (accession 1927 - 070), 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 (mid august).
- 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, Grenadier and Bismarck, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
