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Apple Trees – Dessert TARSET Egremont Russet 1 Tree Pick: October Use: November – December ORCHARD Golden russet, richly flavoured, medium sized fruit. Good cropper, Dear Resident, hardy and resistant to scab. Compact growth, but remember it is a spur bearer. As you are probably aware the Tarset and The flowers are tolerant of late frosts. Greystead Parish Council have been working on Katy creating an orchard at the allotments at 2 Trees Greenhaugh. We have finally received Pick: September permission from Defra to go ahead to create Use: September - October something really special for the Parish. The A very attractive apple, always chosen by children. Bright red Parish Council have got the trees and guards. shiny skin with very juicy crisp We intend to have a day of planting on the flesh and a pleasant flavour. Raised in Sweden in weekend of the 6 th and 7 th of March 2010, 1947 from a cross between James Grieve and (10.30am). We have recruited some volunteers Worcester Pearmain, this is an excellent pollinator of other varieties and produces abundant crops of from Northumberland National Park to help and 'lunch-box' sized apples we are looking for local volunteers to work along side. Sunset 1 Tree Pick: October This is also your opportunity to sponsor a tree. Use: October - December We have picked some varieties that we are led to A comparatively recent variety with believe will grow well on this site. A tree kit can golden fruits flushed red and be purchased by yourself for the sum of £25.00. specked with russet. The best substitute for Cox's Orange Pippin in the North of Your tree would be identified with a metal label. England, forming a tree of compact and tidy habit with You can use the bottom of this page to select a the added attraction of very colourful blossom. Firm variety of fruit tree. Please get in touch. and juicy, delicious flavour, regular cropper and fairly resistant to frost. Origin. Kent c1918. Yours faithfully, Worcester Pearmain Alistair Murray 1 Bush (Chairman of the Parish Council) Pick: October Use: September - October Crimson, medium sized fruit. Best Name……………………..……………………. picked and eaten fresh from the Address ……………………………….............. trees, it can be eaten as early as …………………………………………………… August in the South of England. Produces huge crops especially when Charles Ross is used as its pollinator. …………………………………………………… Bears a good crop in most years, unless you forget …………………………………………………… that it is a tip bearer and prune off your next crop! This beautiful apple is susceptible to scab but resistant to Tel…………………………… frost and does not mind Lime Sulphur spray. The Choice of tree ………………………………… apple originated in the market garden of Mr Hale at Wording for Label …………………………… Swan Pool, near Worcester in the 1870's and is probably a seedling from Devonshire Quarrenden. …………………………………………….…… …………………………………………………… Blenheim Orange ………………………………………………… 2 Trees Pick: October Please print clearly and return to Alistair Murray. Use: November - February Greenhaugh Farm, Greenhaugh, Tarset, Raised by Mr Kempster of Hexham, Northumberland. Woodstock, Oxford in 1818. Dull Tel. (01434 240323) yellow, slightly russet skin, with dull red flush. Large, round flat apple of regular shape, crisp, sweet, juicy and yellow flesh with distinctive For any enquiries please ring Alistair, if he is not nutty flavour. Makes a large, spreading flat headed in, leave a message and he will ring back. tree. Ribston Pippin Keswick Codling 2 Trees 1 Tree Pick: October Pick: September Use: October - January Use: September - October Intense, rich aromatic flavour. Firm An old favourite. Green, good juicy deep cream flesh. Excellent cropper, with a sharp juicy soft quality fruit and a good cropper. refreshing flavour. The tree fruits well in the North with Origin Yorkshire c1707 It was discovered at Ribston a biennial tendency. According to Robert Hogg in The Hall near Knaresborough and is though to come from Fruit Manual the original tree was found growing a seed brought there in 1688. The tree blew down in behind a wall at Gleaston Castle near Ulverston. 1810 but did not die until 1835, when a young shoot Lancashire among a quantity of rubbish. Mr John sprouted and survived until a gale in 1928. Sander then introduced the Apple in about 1790 from his nursery in Keswick, Cumbria. Ellison's Orange 1 Tree Lady Henniker Pick: September 2 Trees Use: September - October Pick: October Raised by Rev. C.C. Ellison and Use: November - March introduced in 1911. Golden fruits A very old dual purpose apple flushed and striped red, of medium size, round, raised in the 1840's on the estate slightly conical and with flat ends. Moderate, upright of Lord Henniker at Thornham Hall in Suffolk by the growth, with slender branches. Apples very juicy and Head Gardener Mr. John Perkins. As a dessert apple richly flavoured when fully ripe, a reliable cropper and this is slightly sharp with a sweet and spicy aroma. the flower resists Spring frosts When cooked the fruits break down to a wonderfully aromatic yellow puree sweet flavour. The unusually- Apple Trees – Dual Purpose shaped apples, almost angular in appearance, are produced in abundance Newton Wonder Apple Trees – Culinary 1 Tree Pick: October Howgate Wonder Use: November - May 1 Tree One of the best cooking apples Pick: November available, and deserves a place Use: December - January in any fruit garden or orchard. One of the largest cooking apples in Raised at King's Newton in Derbyshire in 1887, the cultivation, this is a real beauty. fruit are very large and colourful, with yellow flesh Raised on the Isle of Wight in 1915 heavily flushed with scarlet. Cooks to a full-flavoured by G. Wratten at Howgate Lane, Bembridge, this is a yellow fluff with a sweet aroma. Because of it's long cross between Newton Wonder and Blenheim keeping qualities, it will mellow into a sharp but very Orange. A flattish apple, pale yellow-green with acceptable dessert apple. Hardy and tolerant of late conspicuous red and orange striping, the flesh is frim, frosts. juicy and quite sweet when ripe and cooks well. This is a heavy and reliable cropper. Golden Spire 2 Trees Early Victoria Pick: October 1 Tree Use: October - November Pick: August The origins of this variety are Use: August - October A cross between Lord Grosvenor uncertain, but probably arose in and Keswick Codlin. It was Lancashire where it was widely grown c.1850. Introduced to the market by introduced by Messers Cross of nurseryman Richard Smith of Worcester it was known Wisbech.c1800s Pale greenish yellow, white flesh, as Tom Matthews cider apple. The Victorians also medium sized, conical apple, usually free from both Apple Scab and Canker. The tree bears young, and is used this variety for the shrub border as the blossoms a heavy cropper but can often be biennial. are particularly striking. Yellow, conical shaped apple, does not fall when cooked, and makes good Apple Sauce. The tree is of low vigour and is a regular Grenadier cropper. Origin Lancashire 1850. 1 Tree Pick: September Use: September - November Green, characteristic flat shape, can be cooked as early as July. Magnificent flavour and cooks to a froth. Crops freely, compact growth and succeeds on most soils, growing well in wet climates. Raised in the U.K Lane's Prince Albert Cherry Trees 2 Trees Pick: October Use: November - March Cherokee Introduced in 1857, pale green 2 Trees with pinkish flush. A fine, smooth Type: Dessert and slightly greasy skinned apple. Pick: July Does not keep quite so long as Bramley's Seedling or Use: July - August Monarch but its compact growth and reliable cropping Also known as Lapins, this is a (very prolific) recommend its suitability for small superb self-fertile mid-season sweet cherry producing gardens. Do not spray with sulphur after blossoming. large crops of luscious dark red fruit. Bred in Canada, Succeeds in most soils these are very hardy and will set fruit even in less than ideal conditions. Lord Derby Morello 1 Tree 3 Trees Pick: October Type: Culinary Use: October - December Pick: September A very prolific late culinary apple, Use: August - September raised in 1862, which has many By far the most popular acid attributes - the grass-green fruit have a fine flavour Cherry. It can be picked at the and stay intact when cooked; the tree is very hardy very sour dark red stage for stewing, or it can be left and suitable for the North; good resistance to scab until nearly black when it becomes a little sweeter. and succeeds well on wet soils. Thin the fruit in June The growth is compact and spreading. for the best sized apples Damson Trees Mere de Menage 2 Trees German Prune Pick: October 1 Tree Use: November - February Use: September We are delighted to be able to Said to have originated in Asia and to have been offer this very old culinary variety known to the Romans. It found its way to Germany in from the 1700's - the huge bright the late 1600's. The fruit is medium small, with blue- red angular fruit are a spectacular sight in late black bloom. Self-fertile September. Early season variety which cooks to a sweet puree. Very hardy, crops well even in exposed Merryweather positions. 1 Tree Pick: September Rev. W. Wilks Use: September 2 Trees Introduced in 1907 in Southwell, Pick: September Nottinghamshire, this is the most Use: September - October popular variety of damson for Reverend Wilks was the Secretary garden use. Heavy crops of large round blue-black of the RHS from 1888 - 1919, and fruit which are acidic but juicy. Makes first class jams this superb mid-season cooker and chutneys.
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