RHS AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT Fruit (with descriptions) 2011 The AGM criteria APPLE (Malus domestica) 98 Alkmene’ (D) (H4) 2 Intended as a practical guide ~ aromatic, Cox-like flavour. Good, for the gardener, the AGM is regular crops; some resistance awarded only to plants that are: to scab and mildew. Season: late Sept.–late Oct. • excellent for ordinary use in ‘American Mother’ appropriate conditions ~ see ‘Mother’ • available 93 ‘Arthur Turner’ (C) (H4) 3 • of good constitution ~ flavoursome cooker. Large, golden • essentially stable in form and exhibition fruit. Good, regular colour crops; prone to mildew; some resistance to scab. Striking, deep • reasonably resistant to pests LIBRARY and diseases pink blossom, for which AM 1945. LEY Season: Sept.–Nov. D 4 LIN Key to codes & ratings 93 ‘Ashmead’s Kernel’ (D) (H4) , ~ intense, fruit-drop flavour. RHS Each award includes a hardiness Cropping erratic; prone to bitter rating, which is an integral part of pit. Season: Dec.–Feb. 93 ‘Claygate Pearmain’ (D) (H4)* 4 the AGM, and should be included 93 ‘Belle de Boskoop’ (C/D) (H4)*‡ 3 ~ rich and nutty flavour. Good, in any citation of the award: ~ needs little or no extra sugar when regular crops, but can be poorly cooked; mellows to brisk eating coloured. Season: Dec.–Feb. H1 requires heated glass apple. Good, regular crops; very 98 DELBARESTIVALE ‘Delcorf’ (D) (H4) 3 H2 requires unheated glass vigorous tree. Season: Oct.–Apr.; ~ bright, attractive fruit; sweet, H3 hardy outside in some regions; keeps well honeyed taste. Heavy, regular needs frost-free protection in 93 ‘Blenheim Orange’ (C/D) (H4)*‡ 3 crops. Season: Sept.–Oct. winter ~ characteristic nutty flavour. Use 93 ‘Discovery’ (D) (H4)* 3 H4 hardy throughout British Isles early for cooking. Some resistance ~ bright red, crisp, juicy; keeps longer to mildew; very vigorous tree; than most earlies. Ornamental Figures to the left of the name partial tip-bearer; light crops. tree. Good, regular crops; partial give the year of the award. Season (C): from late Sept. (D): tip bearer; good resistance to Names in SMALL CAPITALS are trade Oct.–Dec./Jan. scab and mildew. Season: mid designations. See foot of inside 93 ‘Bramley’s Seedling’ (C) (H4)*‡ 3 Aug.–Sept. pages for key to other codes. ~ cooks to very sharp, savoury purée; 93 ‘Dummellor’s Seedling’ (C) (H4) 4 retains acidity to spring. Heavy ~ previously listed as apple AGM material online crops; prone to bitter pit and scab; ‘Dumelow’s Seedling’. Cooks to partial tip bearer; can bear fruit well-flavoured, juicy purée; retains For information about the AGM parthenocarpically; tendency to be acidity to spring. Good, regular and RHS trials, go to: www.rhs. biennial if over-cropped; blossom crops, but fruit can be small for a org.uk/trials. For a full list of susceptible to frost. Very vigorous cooker. Season: Nov.–Apr. AGM plants, go to: www.rhs.org. tree. Season: Nov.–Mar.; stores ‘Early Victoria’ uk/AGMplants well ~ see ’Emneth Early’ 93 ‘Charles Ross’ (C/D) (H4)* 3 Cultivation ~ quite rich flavour; needs no sugar when cooked. Handsome See back page for notes on cul- exhibition fruit. Good, regular Above. Apple ‘Dummellor’s Seedling’ tivation. For more information, crops; hardy tree; some resistance (top), drawn by Alice B. Ellis, from Robert go to: www.rhs.org.uk/advice- to scab. Season: Oct.–Dec. Hogg’s The Herefordshire Pomona search and click on the A–Z link. (1878–1884). For more information, please write to: AGM Lists, Science Dept, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB [email protected] Copyright © 2011 The Royal Horticultural Society • Version 300611 Registered charity no: 222879 / SC038262 RHS AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT Fruit 2011 (page 2) 93 ‘Emneth Early’ (C) (H4)* 3 93 ‘Grenadier’ (C) (H4)* 3 ~ codlin type, cooking to fluffy purée; ~ cooks to sharp purée. Heavy, needs hardly any sugar. Heavy but regular crops; good disease biennial crops; needs thinning for resistance. Season: Aug.–Sept. size. Some resistance to scab and 93 ‘Idared’ (D) (H4) 2 mildew. Season: Aug.–Sept. ~ crisp apple, with moderate flavour; ‘Epicure’ keeps very well. Good, regular crops; ~ see ‘Laxton’s Epicure’ prone to canker, scab; very prone to 93 ‘Falstaff’ (PBR) (D) (H4) 3 mildew. Season: Nov.–Mar. ~ attractive, crisp fruit. Heavy, regular 93 ‘James Grieve’ (C/D) (H4)* 3 crops; frost-resistant blossom; some ~ savoury, crisp to melting flesh; LIBRARY resistance to scab. Good pollinator. when cooked keeps shape, with Can show poor fruit colour; ‘Red juicy, delicate flavour. Good, LEY D Falstaff’ is more highly coloured regular crops; fruit bruises easily. LIN , clone. Season: Oct.–Dec. Prone to scab, canker; resistant to RHS 93 ‘Fiesta’ (PBR) (D) (H4) 3 mildew; requires well-drained soil. ~ aromatic, Cox-like flavour. Heavy, Season: Sept.–Oct. and longer regular crops; frost-resistant 93 ‘Jonagold’ (D) (H4)‡ 3 93 ‘Edward VII’ (C) (H4)* 6 blossom; less prone to disease ~ attractive, crisp, honeyed taste; ~ cooks to well-flavoured purée, not than Cox, but can be susceptible large fruit. Heavy, regular crops; as acidic as ‘Bramley’s Seedling’. to scab and develop canker in prone to canker. Fruit can be Large, regular, exhibition fruit. some sites. Season: Oct.–Dec./Jan. poorly coloured, but many more Deep pink blossom; flowers very ‘Fortune’ colourful sports exist. Vigorous. late so escapes frosts; needs late- ~ see ‘Laxton’s Fortune’ Season: Nov.–Jan./Feb.; stores well flowering pollinator. Good, regular 93 ‘George Neal’ (C/D) (H4) 2 93 ‘Jupiter’ (PBR) (D) (H4)*‡ 3 crops; resistant to scab; some ~ brisk eating apple; sweet, delicate ~ Cox-like flavour, but sharper. Heavy resistance to mildew. Season: taste when cooked. Striking, deep crops, but biennial if allowed to Dec.–Apr. pink blossom. Good, regular crops. over-crop; fruit can be irregular 93 ‘Egremont Russet’ (D) (H4)* 2 Season: late Aug.–Sept. shape and heavily russetted. ~ characteristic nutty flavour. Good, 93 ‘Golden Delicious’ (D) (H4) 4 Vigorous. Season: late Oct.–Jan. regular crops; fruit resistant to ~ honeyed, very sweet when well 93 ‘Kidd’s Orange Red’ (D) (H4) 3 scab, but prone to leaf scab; very ripened. Heavy, regular crops; prone ~ very attractive; rich aromatic, prone to bitter pit and woolly to scab. Good pollinator for other perfumed taste. Good, regular aphids. Season: Oct.–Dec. trees; stores well. Season: Nov.–Feb. crops; fruit prone to coarse russet. 93 ‘Ellison’s Orange’ (D) (H4) 4 93 ‘Golden Noble’ (C) (H4) 4 Season: Nov.–Jan. ~ rich, aniseed flavour. Good, regular ~ cooks to a well-flavoured purée, not 93 ‘King of the Pippins’ (C/D) (H4)* 5 crops; some resistance to scab, but as acidic as ‘Bramley’s Seedling’. ~ well ripened, good flavour. Cooked, susceptible to canker. Season: late Attractive blossom. Good, regular keeps shape, flavoursome; Sept.–late Oct. crops; partial tip bearer; some scab suited to open tarts, etc. Heavy, 93 ‘Elstar’ (D) (H4) 3 and mildew resist ance. Season: regular crops; upright habit; good ~ intense flavour, honeyed, crisp. Oct.–Dec. and longer resistance to disease; keeps well. Heavy regular crops. Season: late 93 ‘Greensleeves’ (PBR) (D) (H4) 3 Season: Oct.–Dec.; can store to Feb. Oct.–Dec. ~ crisp, brisk, becoming sweeter. 93 ‘King Russet’ (D) (H4) 3 Very precocious and heavy, regular ~ russetted form of ‘King of the crops; needs thinning for good Pippins’. Improved eating quality; fruit size. Blossom has some frost good distinct ‘russet’ flavour. resistance. Can be susceptible to Not as heavy cropping. Season: Above. Apple ‘Blenheim Orange’, drawn scab. Season: late Sept.–Oct.; short Oct.–Dec. by Elizabeth Dowle, 1986. season once picked H1 requires heated glass H2 requires unheated glass H3 hardy outside in some regions; needs frost-free protection in winter H4 hardy throughout the British Isles * suitable for northerly, colder, higher rainfall areas ‡ triploid (C) culinary (D) dessert Figures to the left of names give the year of the award • Figures in superscript after the name denote the pollination group RHS AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT Fruit 2011 (page 3) 93 ‘Lane’s Prince Albert’ (C) (H4)* 3 93 ‘Peasgood’s Nonsuch’ (C/D) (H4) 3 ~ cooks to brisk purée, not as acidic ~ cooks to sweet, delicately flavoured as ‘Bramley’s Seedling’. Large purée; needs no or little extra fruit. Good, regular crops; fruit sugar. Exhibition apple with large, easily bruised. Hardy; makes neat handsome regular shape. Good, small tree. Resistant to scab; very regular crops; resistance to mildew prone to mildew; prone to canker and red spider; moderate resistance on all but very well-drained soils. to scab. Season: late Sept.–Dec. Season: Nov.–Mar.; stores well 93 ‘Pixie’ (D) (H4)* 4 93 ‘Laxton’s Epicure’ (D) (H4)* 3 ~ intensely aromatic, Cox-like ~ delicate, aromatic, Cox-like flavour. flavour, but sharper and firmer- Heavy, regular crops; needs fleshed. Good to heavy crops, but thinning for size; prone to bitter small fruit unless thinned. Season: LIBRARY pit, canker. Season: late Aug.–Sept. Dec.–Mar. 2 LEY Awarded as ‘Epicure’ 93 ‘Ribston Pippin’ (D) (H4)‡ D 3 93 ‘Laxton’s Fortune’ (D) (H4) ~ intense, rich, aromatic flavour; LIN , ~ sweet, lightly aromatic flavour; more acidity and more robust RHS needs to colour well for good than Cox. Good, regular crops; quality. Good crops, but tendency resistant to scab; prone to mildew to be biennial. Fruit bruises easily, and canker. Season: Oct.–Jan. 93 ‘Suntan’ (D) (H4)‡ 5 can be poorly coloured. Prone to 93 ‘Rosemary Russet’ (D) (H4) 3 ~ intensely flavoured, aromatic, but canker, good resistance to scab. ~ sweet-sharp acid-drop taste, can be over-sharp; needs keeping Season: Sept.–Oct. Awarded as resembling ‘Ashmead’s Kernel’. to Dec. to mellow. Good, regular ‘Fortune’ Crops good, regular; vigorous tree crops; prone to bitter pit, canker. 93 ‘Lord Lambourne’ (D) (H4)* 2 with upright habit.