Spencer
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1926 by R.C.Palmer at the Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada. Introduced in 1959. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet, pleasant and slightly vinous flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Spencer Canada, 1926
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Golden Delicious United States, 1905
- Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
Sources
- Spencer (accession 1963 - 107), 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).
