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- Cordon-trained
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- Premium cordon
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Categories
Apples
11
Mid-season eating apples
2
Late eating apples
9
Russet apples
2
Pears
4
Dessert pears
4
Stock availability
All
15
In stock
15
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
2
1-year bush-trained
2-year
169
2-year bush-trained
97
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
34
2-year top-worked
8
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
15
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
14
Medium
1
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
11
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Quince Eline
4
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Supplied as
12L pot
15
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
9
Average
4
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
4
Partially self-fertile
5
Not self-fertile
6
Flowering group
?
1
2
2
3
9
4
4
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
3
Average
11
Poor
1
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
13
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
1
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
15
Mild damp climates
3
Warm climates
4
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
1
Mid
3
Late
10
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
8
Good
6
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
2
2-3 weeks
4
1-2 months
6
3 months or more
3
Food uses
Eating fresh
15
Culinary
1
Traditional cooker
Dual purpose
Juice
3
Hard cider
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Toxic to humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
2
Average
10
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
1
Very susceptible
2
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
2
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
7
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
4
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
4
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
1
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
13
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
4
1900 - 1949
1
1950 - 1999
5
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
December
Blossom colour
White
6
Cream
Pink - light
4
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
4
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
5
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
1
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
2
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
2
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Light green / Yellow
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
8
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
RHS Plant of the Year
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: 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
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 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 self-fertile English pear, with good flavour, heavy-cropping, 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