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Apple varieties, United States

Victory (USA)

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

Raised by C. Haralson, Minnesota Agricultural Experimental Station, Excelsior, USA. Introduced in 1943. Fruits have crisp, juicy sweet flesh with a strawberry like flavour.

Family tree

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

Victory (USA) United States, by 1943
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811

Where Victory (USA) came from. The lines lead to its parents: McIntosh (Canada).

Sources

Victory (USA) (accession 1951 - 066), 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).