Adam’s Apples QUALITY FRUIT TREES AT COMPETITIVE Adam’sPRICES Apples QUALITY FRUIT TREES AT COMPETITIVE PRICES www.adamsappletrees.co.uk Adam’s 2016/2017Apples www.adamsappletrees.co.ukwww.adamsappletrees.co.uk1 Contents Our aim is to grow and supply quality Adam’s Apple Varieties. 5-14 fruit trees at competitive prices Other Tree Fruit ................17-18 As a family business we have been growing and supplying thousands Soft Fruit. .19-20 of apple trees to orchards, farms, nurseries, and gardens every year Blueberries .......................20 since 1994. We grow over 130 different varieties of apple trees, most Apples we supply as bare-root maidens, but also 2 year old trees. Fruit trees Planting Sundries ...................21 Rootstocks ........................4 in pots are available year round to collect from the nursery. We also grow and supply a broad range of other tree fruit and soft fruit. Email: [email protected] Prices and Ordering .................4 Easy find apple varieties .............15 DIRECTORS: Much of our business is now by recommendation, and many of our Adam Powell BSc M.HORT(RHS) Terms & Conditions ................21 customers, from all over the British Isles and Europe return year and Kim Powell Frequently Asked Questions ..........22 after year. They say our trees grow well. All our trees are grown on certified rootstocks and are inspected twice a year by DEFRA plant inspectors giving us fireblight buffer zone status. We are happy to help with advice for your orchard. www.adamsappletrees.co.uk Please ring first if you wish to visit 01404 841166 Adam’s Adam’s Kim amongst the young apple EC Plant Passport UK/EW: 53147 trees, Adam’s Apples, August 2 www.adamsappletrees.co.uk Apples Apples www.adamsappletrees.co.uk 3 APPLES POLLINATION Heavier crops are obtained when apples are pollinated by another variety of apple. This occurs Flowering Cropping Apple Rootstock Description best when flowering periods coincide or overlap, to achieve this choose varieties with the same Group period/use or adjacent flowering periods. For example all varieties in group 3 will pollinate but they will also Adam’s M9, MM106 Dessert Bright red, nutty aromatic flavour. Hardy and pollinate with groups 4 and 2, but not 1 and 5. 2 Pearmain M25 Oct-Mar disease resistant. 19th century. We offer four varieties of crab apples (Evereste, John Downie, Red Sentinel, Profusion) Cider A new early bittersweet that produces crops Amanda Late MM106 these flower freely and will increase fruiting in your orchard. We recommend one crab apple to Sept. similar to Michelin. Developed by Liz Copas. every 40 fruiting apple trees. American Dessert Aromatic flavour of peardrops with vanilla. 3 MM106 Mother Oct-Jan Yellow flesh. Known as Mother. U.S.A.1844. MM106 Cooker Very hardy for the north of England. Sweet ROOTSTOCKS FOR APPLES Annie Elizabeth 4 All our apple trees are grafted onto a rootstock. The rootstock of an apple tree will M25 Oct-April does not need sugar. 1868 Leicestershire. Cooker Cooks to a yellow puree. Attractive blossom determine how tall it will grow and also how quickly it will come into cropping after planting. Arthur Turner 2 MM106 Sept-Nov 1915 Bucks. The rootstocks we supply are; Ashmead’s M9, MM106 Dessert Pale green aromatic eater, acid drop flavour 3 MM106 – Half Standard – Orchard and garden use – Growing to 4-5 metres on maturity. Trees Kernel M25 Oct-Feb Improves with keeping. 17th century origin. start cropping in two years and are in full cropping after 5-6 years. These can be grown as a bush tree Bakers Large apple gold flushed. Juicy and refreshing 1 MM106 Eat/Cook or trained as cordons or espaliers. Most fruit can be picked from the ground, the rest by stepladder. Delicious aromatic. A regular cropper, Wales 1932. M25 – Standard – Farm Use – Growing to 7-10 metres plus, a vigorous rootstock used to Bardsey Island M9, MM106 Cooker From The Bardsey Island Tree off the coast of grow the traditional standard apple tree. Come into cropping after five years. Generally M25 Oct. Wales, disease resistant. www.bardseyapple.co.uk recommended by DEFRA for stewardship schemes. A higher canopy allows grazing, but stock M9, MM106 Dessert Eat from the tree, sweet and juicy, does not Beauty of Bath 2 guards are advisable. M25 Aug keep. Somerset 19th century. M9 – Dwarf – Ideal on a patio also used for intensive orchards – Growing to 2-3 metres - On Cooker A large red cooker with its own sweetness. Beef Apple 4 MM106 good soil, needs permanent staking. Good for containers in small gardens. Sept-Oct Regular cropping, a very attractive apple. Devon. MM106 Vintage cider variety. Bittersweet, a heavy cropper. Black Dabinett 4 Cider Nov PRICES AND ORDERING M25 More vigorous than Dabinett, Somerset. Blenheim Apples 1 year-old Please place your M9, MM106 Eat/Cook Crumbly texture distinctive sweet nutty Orange 3 Wholesale - 25 trees (total order) or more – £8.00 per tree. order online, by M25 Oct-Feb flavour keeps well. 18th century Oxfordshire. Retail - Less than 25 trees – £12.00 per tree. Bloody Dessert Blood red apple, pink stained flesh, sweet phone, email or post Ploughman 3 MM106 Do not send any money Sept-Oct crisp juicy. Scotland. Apples 2 year-old until we have confirmed Boskoop 3 MM106 Eat\Cook Large aromatic, crops and keeps well. Wholesale – 25 trees (total order) or more – £10.00 per tree. availability and notified you Oct-Feb Retail – less than 25 trees – £15.00 per tree. of the full amount. You can pay by credit card, cheque or Pears, Plums, Gages, Damsons, Cherries, online. Bloody Ploughman Peaches (2 year-old) Wholesale – 25 trees (total order) or more – £11 per tree. Retail – less than 25 trees – £16.50 per tree. Our guarantee Discounts on larger orders In the unlikely event your We can offer further discounts on orders over £500, and we are trees do not grow we will particularly keen to help community groups, schools and allotment replace them as long as we societies. can be sure reasonable care Packaging and delivery was taken by you. Please tell UK Mainland excluding highlands, other areas at cost. 10% (plus us before July if you have a VAT) of the order value with a minimum charge of £12.50 + VAT. problem. All prices are subject to change web prices maybe cheaper we have regular offers on our website Adam’s Adam’s 4 www.adamsappletrees.co.uk Apples Apples www.adamsappletrees.co.uk 5 Flowering Cropping Flowering Cropping Apple Rootstock Description Apple Rootstock Description Group period/use Group period/use Cooker Like Bramley but not a triploid. Retains shape Colloggett Cider/Cook Cooks to a golden puree and makes a dry Bountiful 2 MM106 3 MM106 Sept-Oct when cooked, disease resistant. Kent 1964. Pippin Sept-Nov cider. Cornwall 1920 syn. Cornish Giant. Dessert Crisp, juicy. Heavy crops ripen well south of Cornish Dessert Braeburn 4 MM106 3 MM106 Sweet sharp and spicy flavour. 1813 Cornwall. Jan-March the Midlands, stores well, self-fertile. Aromatic Oct-Feb M9, MM106 Cooker The most popular cooker. Keeps well, can be Cornish Dessert A knobbly apple, attractive blossom. Rich Bramley 3 3 MM106 M25 Oct-Mar eaten uncooked after Christmas. Notts.1809. Gilliflower Oct-Jan aromatic flavour. Truro 1800. Bramley Cooker As Bramley, but 20% less vigorous, fruits Court M9, MM106 Dessert Fruity flavour. Old West Country variety 3 MM106 4 Clone 20 Oct-Mar more freely. of Wick M25 Sept-Dec Very hardy. 1790 Somerset. MM106 Cider Vintage sharp cider apple, vigorous and Court Pendu MM106 Dessert Rich pineapple like acidity. Attractive blossom. Brown’s 5 5 M25 Oct-Nov upright medium sized fruit. Totnes, Devon. Plat M25 Oct-April Pre1600 maybe grown by the Romans. Cider Bittersweet, late. Herefordshire Cider Sweet Vintage, heavy but irregular cropping. Brown Snout 4 MM106 Court Royal 2 M25 Oct 19th century. November East Devon. Bulmers Cider Cox’s Orange M9 Dessert A distinctive full flavour, russeted skin. Crops 3 M25 Bittersweet, a strong grower. 3 Norman Oct Pippin MM106 Oct-Mar best in drier districts. MM106 Cider/Cook Mild bittersharp cooks to a sharp golden puree. Crawley Eat/Cook A very attractive blemish free apple. A prolific Camelot 2 5 MM106 M25 Dec-Mar Late cropper, scab resistant. Somerset 19th century. Beauty Oct-Feb cropper. Sweetens with storage. Sussex 1870. A regular cropper and a vigorous tree. The Cooker Crimson Cook Catshead 4 MM106 green apples cook to a firm puree. Recorded 3 MM106 As Bramley but with red skin. Oct.-Jan Bramley Dec/Mar as early as 1600. Cider/Cook Full medium sharp vintage quality. Yellow flushed M9 Eat/Cook Sweet juicy large apple. Scab resistant. Hangs Crimson King 3 M25 Charles Ross 2 Nov with vivid crimson when ripe. Somerset. MM106 Sept well on the tree when ripe. Berks.1890. M9 Eat/Cook Green crisp apple, sweet and juicy. Cheddar M9, MM106 Dessert A crisp dessert apple with pink stripes on a cream Crispin 2 1 MM106 Dec-May A vigorous tree, reliable crops. Cross M25 Aug-Sept background, juicy with mellow acidity. Bristol 1916. Dessert Spicy nutmeg flavour, sharp but sweetens A full bittersweet that drops its fruit naturally Darcy Spice 3 M25 MM106, Cider Jan-Mar with age. Essex 1785. Chisel Jersey Mid in November. Heavy crops, widely planted. M25 Nov. Devonshire MM106 Dessert Strawberry flavour, best when eaten from the From Martock, Somerset. 1 Chivers Dessert Quarrenden M25 August tree. Popular Victorian apple. 1676. 4 MM106 A golden apple, sweet and juicy, stores well. Delight Nov/Jan M9, MM106 Dessert An early eater, best eaten from the tree Discovery 3 Christmas Dessert Russeted green apples with yellow flesh.