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Varieties
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Categories
Apples
17
Early eating apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
3
Late eating apples
10
Cooking apples
2
Dual-purpose apples
1
Pears
3
Dessert pears
3
Stock availability
All
20
Available to pre-order
20
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
1-year bush-trained
4
2-year
151
2-year bush-trained
134
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
56
2-year top-worked
11
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
20
1/4 standard
2
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
20
Medium
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
17
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Quince Eline
3
?
Supplied as
12L pot
20
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
13
Average
5
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
5
Not self-fertile
9
Flowering group
?
1
2
3
3
14
4
3
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
4
Average
14
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
15
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
4
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
20
Mild damp climates
5
Warm climates
5
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
3
Mid
5
Late
11
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
10
Good
9
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
5
2-3 weeks
3
1-2 months
8
3 months or more
4
Food uses
Eating fresh
18
Culinary
4
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
1
Juice
7
Hard cider
2
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
5
Average
12
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
2
Very susceptible
1
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
5
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
8
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
3
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
5
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
1
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
1
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
1
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
2
1950 - 1999
8
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
9
Cream
Pink - light
6
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
3
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
6
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
4
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
2
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
2
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
11
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
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
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
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
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
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
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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