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Cider apple trees

Harry Masters Jersey

Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.

Reserve now for delivery w/c 3rd September onwards

Harry Masters Jersey cider apple trees for sale

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Bare-root fruit trees (delivery any week Nov 2012 - Feb 2013)

Large (2.5m - 3.5m)1-year -Bare-root - M116 rootstock £31.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year -Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £30.00
Very large (4.5m+)1-year -Bare-root - M25 rootstock £31.00
Very large (4.5m+)2-year Standard -Bare-root - M25 rootstock £35.00

**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.

Stock availability: Items showing as 'sold out' will probably be available again next season. If you would like to reserve in advance use our enquiry form - this does not commit you to anything.



Growing

  • Cropping: Good
  • Fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Pollinating others: Average
  • Precocity: Precocious
  • Bearing regularity: Biennial tendency
  • Fruit bearing: Tip-bearer
  • Gardening skill: Average
  • Vigour: Weak growing
  • Fruit persistence: Fruit drops when ripe
  • Scab: Some susceptibility

Uses

  • Flavour quality: Very good
  • Good for hard cider
  • Picking season: Very late

Identification

  • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949

Pollination guide for Harry Masters Jersey cider apple trees

Harry Masters Jersey is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Like all cider-apple varieties it can also be pollinated by most other apple varieties or crab-apples flowering at the same time.

Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.

More advice about pollination.



Historical details

Somerset, England - early 20th century. Possibly a seedling of Yarlington Mill.

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