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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Wardington Seedling

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

Raised at Banbury, Oxfordshire by D. Burchnell, gardener to Lady Wardington. First fruited in about 1938. Fruits have crisp, tender, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Wardington Seedling United Kingdom, by about 1938
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
  - Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
  - Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
    - Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s

Where Wardington Seedling came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

Wardington Seedling (accession 1946 - 019), 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 (mid august).