Williams Favourite

Williams Favourite, painted by Bertha Heiges in 1905 for the US Department of Agriculture. Bertha Heiges. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States, about 1750
Parentage: Aport × Hawthornden Found from SNP data by Muranty and others (2020), which does not tell which bore the seed
Uses: Dessert
Picked: August, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, truncate conical fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour brown, striped
Flesh: Greenish
Flavour: Subacid, aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Early; Early Red; Favorite; Favorite de William; Favourite Red; Fruher William; Lady's Apple; Liubimoe Villyama; Queen; Red; William's Early; William's Favorite; William's Favourite; William's Liebling; William's Red; Williams; Williams Early; Williams Early Red; Williams Favorit; Williams Favorite; Williams Favorite Red; Williams Favourite Red; Williams Liebling; Williams Red; Williams' Early; Williams' Early Red; Williams' Favorite; Williams' Favorite Red; Williams' Favourite; Williams' Favourite Red; Williams' Liebling; Williams' Red; Williams's Favorite; Williams's Favourite

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

Originated in about 1750 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. Brought to notice in 1830. Fruits have tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid, aromatic flavour.

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

Williams Favourite United States, about 1750
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Hawthornden United Kingdom, by 1780

Where Williams Favourite came from.

Sources

Williams Favourite (accession 1957 - 233), 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 (late august); the other names.
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, Alexander and Hawthornden, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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