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Varieties
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Categories
Apples
15
Mid-season eating apples
3
Late eating apples
11
Cooking apples
1
Dual-purpose apples
1
Russet apples
2
Pears
7
Dessert pears
7
Stock availability
All
22
In stock
22
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
227
1-year bush-trained
2-year
201
2-year bush-trained
122
Spindlebush
11
2-year half-standard
31
Premium half-standard
46
2-year top-worked
8
2-year (1.75m)
36
Cordon-trained
7
Premium cordon
17
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
18
Medium
6
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
15
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Quince Eline
7
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Supplied as
Bare-root
7
12L pot
17
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
14
Average
6
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
5
Partially self-fertile
6
Not self-fertile
11
Flowering group
?
1
2
2
3
14
4
6
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
4
Average
15
Poor
3
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
19
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
2
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
21
Mild damp climates
4
Warm climates
6
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
2
Mid
5
Late
14
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
11
Good
9
Light
2
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
5
2-3 weeks
4
1-2 months
9
3 months or more
4
Food uses
Eating fresh
21
Culinary
3
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
1
Juice
7
Hard cider
2
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Toxic to humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
3
Average
14
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
1
Very susceptible
2
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
3
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
9
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
5
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
2
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
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
2
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
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
2
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
7
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
December
Blossom colour
White
9
Cream
Pink - light
5
Pink
Pink - dark
1
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
5
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
3
Orange flush
7
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
2
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
2
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Light green / Yellow
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
13
RHS AGM (former)
2
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
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
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
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
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