The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Webster

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

Raised in 1912 by R. Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1938. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.

Family tree

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

Jonathan Webster
Where Webster came from. The lines lead to its parents: Jonathan (United States).

Sources

  1. Webster (accession 1951 - 039), 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).
  2. 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 588948 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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