Apple Trees

(B) GOLDEN PIPPINFamous for Pippin jelly, tarts and cider so a useful and versatile addition to the cooks repertoire. A small apple of bright golden yellow which may be poached whole, the flavour is intense, acidic and with a faint lemony aroma. The season is October – March. Pollinate with Red Windsor, Falstaff, Exeter X, Cornish Gilliflower, James Grieve, White Knight etc.

A superb variety from east Malling Research Station. It bears fruit very early in life and is a superb pollinator for other mid-season apples. The fruits are ready for picking at the end of September and will keep well until late November. The golden apples are very attractive on the tree, and resemble a much brighter and cleaner Golden Delicious. Pale Yellow, but always having russet around the stalk cavity. The medium to large fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with an excellent flavour. The trees are compact and extremely precocious, fruiting on both spurs and young wood. A very easy…

Introduced due to popular request but of variable flavour in the U.K. At its best it is sweet, juicy and refreshing. A highly coloured apple, the bright red flushes and stripes almost obliterate the soft yellow base colour. The pure white flesh is quite crisp for a red apple. Raised in the U.S.A. Introduced here in the mid 1800’s. It is popular in America for pies and other culinary purposes because it is sweet and keeps its shape when cooked. The tree tends to have a drooping habit and is a heavy cropper. Harvest in early October and use from…

Late variety for storing and eating in the new year, keeping well into the spring. A cross from Cox and Jonathan. Malling Kent produces regular and heavy crops of large fruits that are green and flushed with orange/red stripes. The flesh is quite juicy and firm with a pleasant, but watery, flavour. The trees are easy to manage. Ideal pollinators include: Idared, Katy, Spartan, Greensleeves, Redsleeves etc.

An old Irish variety of outstanding beautiful colouring and remarkable flavour. The fruits are small but the complex patterning of orange red stripes and blotches over a bright greenish gold base have been likened to a tortoise shell butterfly. Not just a beautiful apple, the pale yellow firm flesh has a sweet but intense flavour which is at its best from August to late September.

Late variety. Stores well. Superb flavour. White, firm juicy flesh that is aromatic. Superb variety but can crop heavily only every other year on occasion. The flavour is so good that it is still very widely planted in gardens everywhere. Pollinators include: Redsleeves, James Grieve, Jester, Fiesta etc.

NEW A refreshing newcomer indeed as one Professional grower put it – Limelight seems to have a glow about it a luminosity of colour which makes the fruits stand out on the tree. It is a bright green yellow blend which may develop a pink blush in the sun. Bred from Greensleeves, one of the most respected and popular of all modern varieties, Limelight makes a very compact, neat tree which crops very heavily. Ready from late September, they will normally keep until late November. The flavour is really refreshing – sweet but very crisp and full of juice. Limelight…

A small but beautifully marked golden Apple with an intricate network of bronze russeting. Ready for picking in early October, they will store at least until January. but the flavour is so good there are unlikely to be enough to last that long! The firm creamy flesh has an intense, aromatic flavour with a subtle, spicey nutmeg like flavour! Makes an upright tree which crops well. 1920’s, possibly earlier. Pollinate with Falstaff, Oaken Pin, Golden Pippin, White Knight, Rubinette, Saturn etc.

Raised in 1785, an upright moderately vigorous tree which crops very heavily. Although sometimes biennial. A variety for the connoisseur with very unusual flavour – at times distinctly pineapple-like, but variously described as nutty, musky, honeyed, sharp, sweet etc depending really on the season. It is a small oblong apple of pale yellow, very lightly russetted, For picking early October and eating late October to Christmas. Good pollination include: Grenadier, Greensleeves, Fiesta etc.