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Apple varieties, United States

Vicking

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

Parentage includes Jonathan, Delicious, Williams Early Red, Early McIntosh and Starr. Raised by nurseryman G.W. Gurney, Yankton, South Dakota, USA. Introduced in 1925. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh.

Family tree

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

Vicking United States, by 1925
- Seed parent Complex - see description
- Pollen parent Complex - see description

Where Vicking came from.

Sources

Vicking (accession 1994 - 048), 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 (late august).