Tom Putt

Tom Putt, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1902 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Trent, Somerset, United Kingdom, late 1700s
Raised by: Rev. Tom Putt
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Cooking, Cider
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour pale greenish yellow, sometimes wavy hairline round eye,; over-colour flushed dull orange-red, carmine blotches and stripes radiating from base
Flesh: Greenish or yellowish white
Flavour: Acid; sharp cider
Ploidy: Triploid
Also called: Coalbrook; Devonshire Nine Square; Izod's Kernel; January Tom Putt; Jeffrey's Seedling; Jeffreys' Seedling; Marrow Bone; Marrow-Bone; Ploughman; Thomas Jeffreys; Thos. Jeffreys; Tom Potter; Tom Put

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

A culinary and cider apple. Raised by Rev. Tom Putt, Rector of Trent, Somerset in the late 1700s. In use from September to November. Fruits have crisp, juicy, acid flesh. Cooks well. Produces a sharp cider.

Where Tom Putt came from.

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Tom Putt (accession 1921 - 084), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; 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.
Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 125271 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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