Jupiter
Eater. Raised 1966 by Dr F Alston, East Malling RS. Cox’s Orange Pippin X Starking.
Delicious and strongly flavoured. Large fruit and strongly growing tree. Biennial tendency. Triploid.
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James Grieve
James Grieve
Eater. Raised by James Grieve from a seed of Pott’s Seedling. Introduced by Dickson’s Nursery, Edinburgh in c1910, where Grieve was manager.
Heavy cropping, (I get 150 fruits every year), it’s ‘sweet/sharp’ and juicy; not a keeper, unless you can pick very good specimens. Very reliable and precocious variety, but a relatively short lived tree. We also sell a red form for our occasional poor summers. It is highly praised as a cross in many hybridising programmes (e.g. Katy). I disagree that it’s a cooker as well.
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Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder
A dual purpose large apple with a good reputation in Scotland. Blenheim x Newton Wonder so very good parentage. Ready late October. Vigorous tree so best to buy on dwarfing stock.
Hood’s Supreme
Hood’s Supreme
Eater. Raised in 1924 by Miss B Y Hood at Edzell, Angus. Very sweet, coarse, soft flesh, almost triangular on my young tree!
Produces strong thick branches. It’s so sweet, it tastes of aspartame!
Hawthornden
Hawthornden
Dual. Raised Scotland and catalogued 1780. Named after birthplace of the 16th Century Poet, Drummond.
Popular garden apple in England in 19th Century. Grown then in London and Kent. Handsome big fruit, Willie Duncan’s Favourite Scottish variety.
Our cordon does very well. Munch with cheese.
Grenadier
Grenadier
A good early cooker for Scotland. Much grown in the Clyde Valley. Tough and disease free large green apples.
Golden Spire
Golden Spire
We have several of these small weeping trees in neighbouring gardens.
They produce tons of codlin shaped dual purpose fruit, good for juicing too.
Golden Noble
Golden Noble
A very tough, round, clean, disease-free late cooker that does very well in Scotland.
Golden Monday
Golden Monday
Dual. UK Recorded in 1724. Strong brisk cidery taste. Rather dry tough white flesh.
Not in National Fruit Collection.
George Cave
George Cave
Eater. Raised 1923 by George Cave, Dovercourt, Essex.
Strong, sweet, sharp taste. Follows on from Beauty of Bath (q.v.) in late summer.
My favourite early eater for Scotland.
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