Summer 2021 - important notice
We are now accepting pre-orders for delivery from late September for pot grown trees and December for bare-rooted trees.
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Orange Pippin Trees
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Varieties
13 varieties
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Flowering group
- 3
Picking season
- Late
Self-fertility
- Not self-fertile
Category
- Late-season eating apples
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Categories
Apples
20
Late eating apples
13
Cooking apples
5
Dual-purpose apples
4
Cherries
2
Sweet cherries
2
Pears
4
Dessert pears
3
Cooking pears
2
Perry pears
4
Plums
6
Eating plums
6
Dual-purpose plums
1
Stock availability
All
13
Available to pre-order
12
Not in stock
1
Form
1-year
12
1-year bush-trained
2-year
3
2-year bush-trained
8
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
5
Premium half-standard
3
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
4
Cordon-trained
4
Premium cordon
4
Espalier
Fan-trained
Mature size
Very small
3
Small
5
Medium
8
Large
12
Very large
4
Rootstocks
M27
3
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M9
5
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M26
7
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M116
3
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MM106
12
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M25
5
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Supplied as
Bare-root
12
12L pot
8
11.5L pot
3
7L pot
1
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
7
Average
6
Experienced
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
2
Partially self-fertile
2
Not self-fertile
13
Flowering group
?
1
2
2
3
13
4
8
5
6
1
Pollinating others
?
Good
1
Average
9
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
?
Spur-bearer
11
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
2
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
13
Mild damp climates
4
Warm climates
1
Using
Picking month
June
July
August
September
1
October
November
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
Mid
Late
13
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
2
Good
9
Light
2
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
2-3 weeks
1
1-2 months
9
3 months or more
3
Food uses
Eating fresh
13
Culinary
2
Traditional cooker
Dual purpose
Juice
3
Hard cider
Drying
Edible fruits
Flavour style (apples)
Sweet/Sharp
4
Sharper
Sweeter
3
Aromatic
6
Vinous
Cooking result
Puree
Textured puree
Keeps shape
Juice style
Sweeter
Sharper
Sweet (cider)
Sharp (cider)
Bittersweet (cider)
Bittersharp (cider)
Cling-stone
Freestone
Semi-freestone
Clingstone
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
4
Average
6
Poor
1
Scab
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Mildew
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
1
Bacterial canker
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Silverleaf
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Fruit splitting
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland
1
Ukraine
United Kingdom
11
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
1900 - 1949
2
1950 - 1999
2
2000
6
Flowering month
March
April
May
Flesh colour
White
Cream
1
Pink / Red
Golden / Yellow
Dark red
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
3
Orange flush
5
Purple
Purple - light
Red
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
1
Red striped
Russet
2
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
1
White
Fruit size
Small
Average
1
Large
Very large
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
4
RHS AGM (former)
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Varieties list
Apple trees
Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Ballerina Samba
®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Christmas Pippin
®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Core Blimey
TM
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Little Pax
TM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Rubinette
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a perfect sweet / sharp flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
