The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Sweet Delicious

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

Raised in 1911 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA by R. Wellington. Fruits have firm, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

  • Sweet Delicious United States, 1911
    • Seed parent Deacon Jones
    • Pollen parent Delicious United States, 1872
      • Parent Winesap United States, by 1817
Delicious Sweet Delicious
Where Sweet Delicious came from. The lines lead to its parents: Delicious (United States).

Sources

  1. Sweet Delicious (accession 1950 - 149), 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).

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