Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Thomas Rivers
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, England and named Rivers’ Codlin. Recorded in 1892 in which year it received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Introduced in 1894. Name changed to Thomas Rivers, the raiser of the apple, in 1897. Fruits have firm, crisp, creamy yellow flesh with an acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Thomas Rivers United Kingdom, by 1892
- Parent Mother United States, by 1844
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780
- Parent Dumelow's Seedling United Kingdom, by 1800
- Seed parent Northern Greening United Kingdom, by 1826
- Parent Mother United States, by 1844
Sources
- Thomas Rivers (accession 1957 - 230), 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 september); the other names.
- 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, Mother and Dumelow's Seedling, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
