Apple varieties, United Kingdom
William Peters
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Peters of Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Recorded in 1917 in which year it received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have soft, very tender, rather coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- William Peters United Kingdom, by 1917
- Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Nonsuch Park United Kingdom, by 1831
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- 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
- Parent Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- William Peters (accession 1931 - 013), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early september).
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Cox's Pomona and Cox's Orange Pippin, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
