Apples in the Orchards

Apples in the orchards www.houghtonlodge.co.uk AMERICAN MOTHER EGREMONT LAXTON’S FORTUNE inclined to crop lightly. A large Late Autumn Dessert. A delicious RUSSETT Early Autumn Dessert. Crisps spreading tree. little apple, juice and aromatic Late Autumn Dessert. A fine richly flavour fruit of Cox RIBSTON PIPPIN with a distinct and pleasing golden russet, one of the best parentage, beautifully coloured Midwinter dessert Apple. One balsamic flavour, crimson on a flavoured of all English apples. and striped red on the yellow, of the most richly flavoured yellow ground. Slow and irregular Will keep until Christmas. cropping well but included to apples, crisps, juicy and strongly in growth, cropping well from and Resistant to scab. biennial bearing. Scab resistant. aromatic. Fairly resistant to scab early age and hardy. Resistant to ELLISON’S ORANGE LAXTON’S SUPERB but may canker on poor soils. A scab. Early Autumn Dessert. Cox New Year Dessert. The most large vigorous tree, succeeding ARTHUR TURNER character but much earlier and widely grown late dessert apple, well as a pyramids or cordon but Summer Cooking Apple. Aug-Oct like so many early apples, softer, rather a dull red on greenish usually a light cropper in this a large greenish-yellow fruit, pleasantly flavoured and when yellow, a little Cox flavour country. Triploid. orange brown on the sunny side. ripe strongly scented. One of the especially from older trees. STURMER PIPPIN Cropping well, upright in growth. most rewarding producing crops Immensely prolific and often Spring Dessert. An Essex apple, BARNACK BEAUTY of clean fruit. biennial bearing. A large much widely grown in Tasmania, branched tree. Subject to scab. Late Cooking. A dual purpose JAMES GRIEVE usually requiring more warmth fruit, golden with red flush and Early Autumn Dessert. A briskly LORD DERBY than our summer to give stripes, hardy and vigorous flavoured juice fruit of Scottish Summer/Autumn Cooker. perfection. Excellent flavour, origin, shiny skinned and Cooking to a nice red. A prolific hardy and cropping well. Pick as COX’S ORANGE late as possible. PIPPIN handsomely striped. A prolific and regular copper. Disease free. cropper doing well in the north, SUNSET Midwinter Dessert. The best LORD LAMBOURNE apt to canker on poor soils. flavoured English apple cropping Late Autumn Dessert Apple. A Late Autumn Dessert. A good well but susceptible to disease. KING OF THE brightly coloured fruit, juice and apple of the Cox type, a little PIPPINS earlier, hardier and resistant to D’ARCY SPICE tender with a pleasant mellow Late Autumn Dessert. An old flavour. Cropping regularly. scab and richly flavoured. Spring Dessert. An old Essex orange-yellow apply. Bitter sweet VICTORIA variety, famous for its rich NEWTON WONDER flavour. Scab resistant. flavour. Late Keeping Cooking. Dec-Mar. Summer and Autumn Cooking LADY SUDELY Shiny golden-yellow with red Apple. (Emneth Early) July- DUKE OF August. A pale yellow fruit DEVONSHIRE Late Summer Dessert. A fairly stripes and flush, a prolific hardy large golden fruit, heavily striped fruit usually free of scab. smaller than average size cooking Spring Dessert Apple. Ripening with scarlett, juicy, tender and to a pale froth. Best codin. in Dec and Jan, keeping till of good flavour in mid Aug. Tip ORLEANS REINETTE AGENER March and later. These should W bearing. New Year Dessert. One of the be picked as late as possible in Spring dessert apple. An old best late apples, golden yellow Oct and stored carefully to avoid LANES PRINCE American variety, keeping crisps with a brown-red cheek. Between shrivelling. ALBERT and juicy until March, a good Ribston and Blenheim in Late Keeping Cooking. Jan-Mar. flavour golden-yellow when ripe EDWARDS VII character but older than either. The most reliable cropper, valued and carmine cheek. Remarkably Late keeping cooking Apple. A A prolific bearer and hardy but for it compact growth and high prolific and hardy and free from large pale yellow fruit, cooking needs protection from scab in quality fruit. Not vigorous enough scab. to a rich dark red. Neat upright poor soils. except in favoured districts and WORCESTER growth. good soil. PEASGOOD PEARMAIN NONSUCH A good fruit if allowed to ripen Summer and Autumn cooking on the tree, crisp, juicy, sweet Apple. Sept-Nov an enormous and somewhat strawberry like in golden fruit prettily striped, flavour, tip bearing. tender and sweet, cooking well, .

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