Ashmead's Kernel Ashmead's Kernel Ashmead's Kernel is a triploid cultivar of apple. Traditionally Ashmead's Kernel was thought to be diploid but a poor pollinator. Ashmead's Kernel is often reported as having been raised by Dr Ashmead in Gloucester, England in the 18th century. However Christine Leighton of the Gloucestershire Orchard Group suggests that the originator may have been William Ashmead, a lawyer who died in 1782. This dessert apple is of medium size, on average 83mm in diameter on vigorous rootstock and has a flat round shape. The base colour of the apple is greenish yellow, yet has a dull russet colour
William Ashmead Courtenay William Ashmead Courtenay William Ashmead Courtenay was the forty-sixth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving two terms from 1879 to 1887. He was born on February 4, 1831, a son of Edward S. Courtenay. From 1850 to 1860 he was occupied in the publishing and book selling business. In 1860, he accepted a position as the business manager for "The Charleston Mercury," a leading political newspaper of South Carolina. He joined the Confederate military in 1861 and served throughout the Civil War. Following the war, Courtenay was destitute, and he worked in Newberry, South Carolina, shuttling materials via wagon to