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The most reliable cider variety producing a high quality juice.
The most reliable cider variety producing a high quality juice.
Yellow-gold fruit has orange flush and a few red stripes. Nutty taste, sweet crumbly texture. An old favourite – cooks, eats and keeps well. When baked it keeps its shape and will produce a thick purée. If the tree form you … Read More
James Grieve x Golden Delicious. A reliable midseason variety. Pale, greenish-yellow. Crisp, tangy, easy to grow, and a good pollinator for other varieties. Self Fertile
Discovery x Greensleeves. This improved Greensleeves type is abundant in cropping. The apple has a clean, smooth finish and seems to glow when ripe with the occasional attractive pink blush. It is crisp, refreshing, and very disease resistant. Makes a neat, compact tree. Bred by … Read More
Similar to Cox but more disease resistant and slightly earlier. Red stripes and orange flush over gold. Sharp intense flavour. Heavy cropper. Excellent garden apple.
Cox’s Orange Pippin x Caville Blanc (probably D’Été). Medium striped, red, juicy apple. Aniseed flavour develops after picking retaining its melting juicy flesh. Scab resistant.
Wyken Pippin x Cox’s Orange Pippin. Sweet and aromatic possessing certain similarities to Cox. Can become biennial bearing. A good substitute for Cox’s Orange Pippin in colder exposed areas. Purple flush and red stripes give this an old fashioned attractive appearance. If variations of … Read More
A self fertile form of Cox’s Orange Pippin highly recommended for less than ideal Cox areas. Heavy crops of the best eating apple in the world.
Superb Cox type flavour and very heavy crops. Frost hardy and very compact growth. An ideal garden variety, easy to grow with good disease resistance and some frost resistance at blossom time. A sport of Alkmene which has Cox’s Orange Pippin parentage. If … Read More