Apple varieties, United Kingdom
William Crump
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Carless, foreman at Rowe’s Nurseries, Worcester and introduced by them. Received an Award of Merit in 1908 and a First Class Certificate in 1910 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and rich, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- William Crump United Kingdom, by 1908
- 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
- Pollen parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- William Crump (accession 1915 - 102), 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 october).
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589309 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
