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Traditional apple trees

A collection of old-fashioned English and Scottish apple varieties from the Victorian era or earlier.

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  • Adams Pearmain

    Adams Pearmain apple trees
    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

  • Annie Elizabeth

    Annie Elizabeth apple trees
    A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Ashmead's Kernel

    Ashmead's Kernel apple trees
    A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Beauty of Bath

    Beauty of Bath apple trees
    One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
    • Picking season: Very early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Blenheim Orange

    Blenheim Orange apple trees
    Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bloody Ploughman

    Bloody Ploughman apple trees
    An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bramley's Seedling

    Bramley's Seedling apple trees
    Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Brownlees Russet

    Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Charles Ross

    Charles Ross apple trees
    Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Claygate Pearmain

    Claygate Pearmain apple trees
    Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Cornish Aromatic

    Cornish Aromatic apple trees
    An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Cornish Gilliflower

    Cornish Gilliflower apple trees
    Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Coul Blush

    Coul Blush apple trees
    Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple from Scotland.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Court Pendu Plat

    Court Pendu Plat apple trees
    Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 6
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Cox's Orange Pippin

    Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees
    Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • D'Arcy Spice

    D'Arcy Spice apple trees
    An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Devonshire Quarrenden

    Devonshire Quarrenden apple trees
    A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
    • Picking season: Very early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Egremont Russet

    Egremont Russet apple trees
    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

  • Ellison's Orange

    Ellison's Orange apple trees
    Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Galloway Pippin

    Galloway Pippin apple trees
    A traditional Scottish cooking apple which keeps its shape when cooked.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS 1st class

  • Golden Delicious

    Golden Delicious apple trees
    The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Granny Smith

    Granny Smith apple trees
    Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Grenadier

    Grenadier apple trees
    Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Irish Peach

    Irish Peach apple trees
    Irish Peach is a popular early season apple, ripening in July / August. It is easy to grow and low maintenance.
    • Picking season: Very early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Isaac Newton's Tree

    Isaac Newton's Tree apple trees
    Also known as Flower of Kent, this is the variety the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton sat under.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 5
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • James Grieve

    James Grieve apple trees
    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

  • Keswick Codlin

    Keswick Codlin apple trees
    Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • King of the Pippins

    King of the Pippins apple trees
    A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • King's Acre Pippin

    King's Acre Pippin apple trees
    A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Lady Henniker

    Lady Henniker apple trees
    A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Lane's Prince Albert

    Lane's Prince Albert apple trees
    A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Laxton's Superb

    Laxton's Superb apple trees
    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

  • Lord Derby

    Lord Derby apple trees
    Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Newton Wonder

    Newton Wonder apple trees
    A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Orleans Reinette

    Orleans Reinette apple trees
    Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Peasgood's Nonsuch

    Peasgood's Nonsuch apple trees
    Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Pitmaston Pine Apple

    Pitmaston Pine Apple apple trees
    A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Ribston Pippin

    Ribston Pippin apple trees
    A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Rosemary Russet

    Rosemary Russet apple trees
    A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Saint Edmund's Russet

    Saint Edmund's Russet apple trees
    Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Scotch Bridget

    Scotch Bridget apple trees
    A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Stirling Castle

    Stirling Castle apple trees
    A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Worcester Pearmain

    Worcester Pearmain apple trees
    Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Yellow Ingestrie

    Yellow Ingestrie apple trees
    One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile