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Apple varieties, United States

Stevenson Wealthy

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

A bud mutation of Wealthy producing larger fruit. Discovered in 1934 in Cayuga, New York, USA by J.R. Stevenson. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and faint vinous flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Stevenson Wealthy United States, 1934
- Sport of Wealthy United States, about 1860
  - Parent Jonathan United States, by 1826
    - Parent Esopus Spitzenburg United States, before 1790
  - Parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier

Sources

Stevenson Wealthy (accession 1974 - 073), 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 september).