The (White) Margil is a very old and historically extremely influential cultivar of domestic

apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

. It ripens in the later half of the apple season and is suitable for fresh eating from November to February. It has a weak growth habit, making it unsuitable for dwarfing

rootstock A rootstock is part of a plant, often an underground part, from which new above-ground growth can be produced. It could also be described as a stem with a well developed root system, to which a bud from another plant is grafted. It can refer to ...

s. It is moderately resistant to diseases and preferably grown in richer soils and milder climates. It has been described as early as 1608. It probably originated in Normandy, France, where it was frequently used for juicing. It is known to have been cultivated in England since before 1750. It has a large number of known offspring varieties, including the particularly famous

Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825 or 1830 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox (horticulturist), Richard Cox. Thoug ...

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Olivier de Serres Olivier de Serres (; 1539–1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose '' Théâtre d'Agriculture'' (1600) was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century. Biography Serres was born in 1539 at Villeneuve-de-Berg, A ...

: Le théatre d'agriculture et ménage des champs André Leroy, 1873: Dictionnaire de pomologie – contenant l'histoire, la description, la figure des fruits anciens et des fruits modernes les plus généralement connus et cultivés Robert Hogg, 1860: The Fruit Manual {{Cite journal , last1=Muranty , first1=Hélène , last2=Denancé , first2=Caroline , last3=Feugey , first3=Laurence , last4=Crépin , first4=Jean-Luc , last5=Barbier , first5=Yves , last6=Tartarini , first6=Stefano , last7=Ordidge , first7=Matthew , last8=Troggio , first8=Michela , last9=Lateur , first9=Marc , last10=Nybom , first10=Hilde , last11=Paprstein , first11=Frantisek , last12=Laurens , first12=François , last13=Durel , first13=Charles-Eric , date=2020-01-02 , title=Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm , url=https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-019-2171-6 , journal=BMC Plant Biology , language= , volume=20 , issue=1 , doi=10.1186/s12870-019-2171-6 , doi-access=free , issn=1471-2229 , pmc=6941274 , pmid=31898487 Apple cultivars