Cooker & eater. Probably raised in Scotland before 1800. Introduced commercially in early 19th century by Hugh Ronalds, Brentwood, Middlesex. Popular garden apple in 19th century.
Early, sometimes July. Firm crisp cream coloured flesh. Also known as Tam Montgomery. Can be very nice in August to munch from the tree.
Eater. Raised c1949 by Mr Dummer, a workman on an Essex fruit farm, Blacksmiths Corner, Langham Essex, where the mother tree still grows. Believed to be Worcester Pearmain X Beauty of Bath. Widely planted in the 1980s for the early UK market.
Crisp, juicy, slightly pink stained flesh ready in September. You can spot them ripening in Scottish gardens everywhere. Justifiably popular.
The forerunner of lots of our dessert apples today – this old eater produces small flat red apples, very distinctive and deliciously crisp. Have tasted some nice crisp fruits in the Clyde Valley in September. Has been grown in Scotland for a long while.
Eater. Probably raised by Mr Grieve at Red Braes Nursery, Edinburgh, and introduced by David Storrie in about 1912. Sent to NFT in 1924.
Strong red colour. Greasy skin. Firm chewy flesh. My two year spindle bush produced lots of fruit in 2013. My third favourite eater for Scotland.
Quite a large pretty eating apple, or early cooker, self fertile and tough enough for the northern areas of Scotland. Bred at the Coul Estate in 1827, in Easter Ross.
Eater. Described in early sixteenth century, when it was regarded as being old then. Sometimes said to have been introduced by the Romans -small intensely flavoured fruit. Very late flowering, and good eating into late winter.
This eater was developed by the jam makers in Montrose who were big in Scotland at one time. It is a medium sized crisp sweet late-ish eater, good for the east of Scotland especially.
This Peasgood nonsuch x Cox does well in Scotland. Don;t be fooled into thinking it’s like a cox… it’s a dual purpose large clean fruit that cooks well, and can ripen and sweeten up to be eaten. Very hardy here. We often sell the red form.
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Cooker. Raised by Mr Bramley and planted by Miss Brailsford in her garden in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, during the Napoleonic war. Introduced by Merryweather of Southwell in c1876.
A large culinary apple, very rich in vitamin C. Very widely planted for commercial cultivation. Must be on a dwarfing stock or it will fill your garden!
Large, spreading tree; tip bearer; Triploid. Must have two pollinators!
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Bramley
Eater. Raised by Storrie of Glencarse , Perthshire, before 1883. Blood red, flesh containing pink streaks when ripe.
Several stories of its origin: one, that a ploughman was shot by a gamekeeper on the Megginch estate, while he was scrumping. His wife threw the bag of apples on a rubbish heap, and several seedlings grew, the first of this variety. There is a green and red clone of this, we, of course, only sell the blood red clone!
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