Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Winston
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1920 by William Pope at Welford Park, Berkshire, England. Introduced (as Winter King) in 1935. Renamed Winston in 1944. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Winston United Kingdom, 1920
- 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
- Winston (accession 1974 - 410), 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); 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
