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Adams Pearmain apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3       Uses: Eat fresh    Disease-resistance: Good
Adams Pearmain apple tree

Adams Pearmain is a well-known traditional English apple variety of the Victorian era which remains popular today.

Rated by the Victorian write Hogg as "A dessert apple of first-rate quality", it has a rich nutty flavour.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Adams Pearmain apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £35.00
Full size (5m+)1-year - Bare-root - M25 rootstock £30.00
Full size (5m+)Standard 1.75m - Bare-root - M25 rootstock £36.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Adams Pearmain

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colour: Orange flush
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Adams Pearmain

Adams Pearmain is in flowering group 3. Adams Pearmain is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other apple trees.



How to grow Adams Pearmain apple trees

Adam's Pearmain is generally easy to grow, and it starts to bear fruit at an early age in the life of the tree. Cropping is good. The main problem to watch out for is a tendency to biennial bearing as the tree gets older - it may develop a pattern of alternate good and bad years. You can either just live with this, or attempt to even it out by over-thinning the fruitlets in the good year.



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Historical details

This variety originates either from Norfolk or Herefordshire in the UK. It was first taken to the Horticultural Society of London in 1826 by a Mr Adams, under the name Norfolk Pippin, but subsequently became known as Adams' Pearmain (usually shortened to Adams Pearmain).

The parentage is unknown but Hogg (writing in 1884) notes the similarity with the Hanging Pearmain of Herefordshire.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Adams Pearmain



Related variety collections

English heritage apple trees, Fruit trees for growing in containers and pots, Apple trees for Devon and Cornwall


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