Lady Henniker apple trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 4

A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.

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Lady Henniker is a traditional Victorian apple variety - heavy-cropping, reliable, and easy to grow.

Although primarily used as a cooker - it cooks down to a sweet-sharp puree - it is also a good apple for eating fresh if you like a sharper flavour.

How to grow

Lady Henniker is a fairly vigorous variety, and produces an attractive large tree when grafted on a vigorous rootstock. Although it is a regular cropper, cropping can be light in the first few years as the tree grows.

Disease resistance is good.

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History

Lady Henniker was raised from a pip in the 1840s by John Perkins, the gardener to Lord Henniker, of Thornham Hall in Suffolk. The parentage is unknown.

Lady Henniker characteristics