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Varieties
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- Cordon-trained
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- Premium cordon
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Categories
Apples
15
Early eating apples
1
Mid-season eating apples
3
Late eating apples
10
Cooking apples
1
Dual-purpose apples
1
Russet apples
2
Pears
6
Dessert pears
6
Stock availability
All
21
In stock
21
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
231
1-year bush-trained
1
2-year
143
2-year bush-trained
126
Spindlebush
8
2-year half-standard
38
Premium half-standard
47
2-year top-worked
6
2-year (1.75m)
36
Cordon-trained
6
Premium cordon
18
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
17
Medium
6
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
15
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Quince Eline
6
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Supplied as
Bare-root
6
12L pot
18
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
14
Average
5
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
5
Not self-fertile
10
Flowering group
?
1
2
2
3
13
4
6
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
4
Average
14
Poor
3
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
17
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
3
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
20
Mild damp climates
4
Warm climates
5
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
2
Mid
5
Late
13
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
11
Good
9
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
5
2-3 weeks
4
1-2 months
8
3 months or more
4
Food uses
Eating fresh
20
Culinary
3
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
1
Juice
6
Hard cider
2
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
3
Average
14
Poor
1
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
2
Very susceptible
2
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
4
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
8
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
5
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
1
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
2
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
18
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
3
1950 - 1999
8
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
Blossom colour
White
10
Cream
Pink - light
5
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
4
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
7
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
3
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
1
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Light green / Yellow
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
13
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Beth
An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Red Falstaff
®
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Windsor
®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
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