We are fortunate and very pleased to be able to offer stock of this famous, sought after and truly excellent old variety. Norfolk ‘Bif fin’ as it is known, was popular amongst Norwich bakers and was frequently dispatched to London fruitiers as a great delicacy. The large handsome fruits are dark green heavily flushed with dark mahogany red and may be used from early October. In store they last and last, by March becoming sweet enough for dessert use. Cooked, they are superb for all purposes and seldom need sugar. Stewed, they keep their shape, and is considered THE apple for slow baking, developing a rich and unmistakable flavour, they have been used in the production of apple crisps – and also for cider making. The Trees are fairly vigorous and eager to please with very heavy crops. Some thinning is necessary in years of over exuberance! Highly recommended -although we should not really say this as stocks are only just sufficient for us to list it! We hope to build stocks to more favourable levels in subsequent years. Our grateful thanks to Mrs Mahalsky. Wide range of pollinators are suitable.







We have in place very rigorous standards for the health,
providence and uniformity of all our fruiting plants & trees. Our Nursery and the stock we grow is
inspected and passported for health regularly by DEFRA experts [formerly the Ministry of Agriculture]
and we have in place our own stringent controls and inspection programmes to ensure our fruiting
bushes and trees are the best, most disease free stocks available and truly beyond compare.
We always propagate from certified stock where this exists and have the highest standards regarding providence
and grading. If only the very best will do – as it should – then you can rely on a Chris Bowers fruiting
plant to give the most exemplary results available. We firmly believe that only the very healthiest
stock can and does produce vastly superior results – and it shows.



























