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Chivers Delight apple trees

Pick: Late-season Flowering group: 4 Uses: Eat fresh

An excellent English apple, once grown commercially on a small scale, and worthy of more attention.

Chivers Delight is basically a sweet apple, with a family resemblance to Cox's Orange Pippin, but with some sharpness to the flavour. The flesh is quite dense and crisp.

Although not related at all, Chivers Delight is quite similar to Braeburn in size, flavour, and crispness - if you like Braeburn apples you will probably like Chivers Delight.

Chivers Delight ripens fairly late in the season, and the apples can be stored for about 3 months in a refrigerator without loss of flavour.

Overall a very pleasing well-balanced apple.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Chivers Delight apple trees for sale

Mature height*	Supplied as	Price** inc. delivery
Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)
Large (3m - 4m)	2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock	£39.00
Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)
Large (3m - 4m)	1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock	£29.00

**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 Chivers Delight

Growing

Gardening skill: Easy(explain)
Cropping: Good
Fertility: Not self-fertile(explain)
Flowering group: 4(explain)
Pollinating others: Average(explain)
Ploidy: Diploid(explain)
Vigour: Average growth(explain)
Bearing regularity: Regular(explain)
Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer(explain)
Fruit persistence: Normal ripening(explain)
Overall disease resistance: Average(explain)

Uses

Picking season: Late(explain)
Use / keeping: 3 months or more(explain)
Flavour quality: Very good(explain)
Flavour style: Sweet/Sharp
Some aromatic qualities.
Good for eating fresh
Drying / Discoloring: No discolor / Good for drying(explain)

Identification

Country of origin: United Kingdom
Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
Fruit colour: Orange flush
Leaf colour: Green
Popular variety

Climate

Temperate climates
Tolerates cold winters
UK Zone 2 - Northern UK: Yes

Pollination guide for Chivers Delight

Chivers Delight is in flowering group 4. Chivers Delight is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.

How to grow Chivers Delight apple trees

Chivers Delight is a good garden apple, and easy to grow. Cropping is reliable in most situations, but the flavour is at its best in a year with a sunny autumn.

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Historical details

Developed in the 1920s in Cambridgeshire by Stephen Chivers of the well-known jam manufacturers, unknown parentage but likely to be related to Cox's Orange Pippin.

Botanical name

Malus domestica Chivers Delight

Related variety collections

Cox's Orange Pippin substitutes

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Chivers Delight apple trees

Chivers Delight apple trees for sale

Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Summary features of Chivers Delight

Growing

Uses

Identification

Climate

Pollination guide for Chivers Delight

How to grow Chivers Delight apple trees

Varieties with similar picking times to Chivers Delight

Historical details

Botanical name

Malus domestica Chivers Delight

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