| Variety Place of origin | THIS LIST WILL BE UPDATED IN LATE SUMMER, READY FOR THE 2017-2018 PLANTING SEASON | A | B |
| Ampney Red Gloucestershire | A dessert variety from Ampney Crucis where it is well known to older villagers. It hasn’t spread far from its place of origin | E. | M25 |
| Arlingham Schoolboys Gloucestershire | General purpose variety, the last tree in Arlingham died in the late 1990’s. | E.C. | M25, MM106 |
| Ashmeads Kernel Gloucestershire | An excellent dessert apple. Gloucestershire’s most famous apple started in 1700 but not recognised much outside the county for nearly 300 years after its birth. | E.5. | M25, MM106 |
| Beauty of Bath | A popular very early season dessert apple with a distinctive sharp taste. Pick from early August. Somerset 1864. | E. | M25 |
| Blenheim Orange | An old favourite, good keeper, sweet nutty flavour. | E.C.3. | M25, MM106 |
| Bramley Nottingham | Most popular cooker, 19th Century. | C.3. | M25, MM106 |
| Cambridge Queening Gloucestershre | Most commonly used for cider, but can be eaten fresh when fully ripe. Pale green/yellow with red flush and crimson stripes. Also known as Cambridge Quoining, possible originates from the French word ‘coin’ meaning corner which refers to the fruit’s angular shape. | E.Ci. | M25 |
| Camalot | A mild bittersweet Somerset cider apple. | Ci.2 | MM106 |
| Charles Ross | Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire. It was first áexhibited in 1890 as Thomas Andrew Knight but renamed Charles Ross at the request of his employer, Captain Carstairs in 1899. Received an Award of Merit and a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, juicy and sweet with a moderate flavour. Easy to grow fruit has an orange red flush. A sweet flavoured eater that also bakes well. Scab resistant. Valued garden apple. Berks 1890 | E.C.3 | MM106 |
| Chaxhill Red Gloucestershire | A general purpose variety but best known for cider. In 1873 it won a First Class Certificate for cider at Gloucester. First raised by Squire Bennett of Chaxhill House, Chaxhill, Westbury-on-Severn. Squire Bennett who owned the Chaxhill Estate was interested in fruit production and his tenants’ farms were well stocked with a broad range of apple and other fruit varieties. He was a friend of William Viner Ellis of nearby Minsterworth Court. William Viner Ellis is much mentioned by R. Hogg in The Fruit Manual (1884). He helped Hogg find a number of rare varieties of apple tree. | Ci | M25 |
| Chivers Delight | An excellent English apple, once grown commercially on a small scale, and worthy of more attention. Chivers Delight is basically a sweet apple, with a family resemblance to Cox’s Orange Pippin, but with some sharpness to the flavour. The flesh is quite dense and crisp. Although not related at all, Chivers Delight is quite similar to Braeburn in size, flavour, and crispness – if you like Braeburn apples you will probably like Chivers Delight. Keep well too! | E. | MM106 |
| Dabinett Somerset | Excellent quality, bittersweet cider apple. 19th century. | Ci.5. | M25 |
| Devonshire Quarrenden | An early dessert apple with a slight strawberry flavour, was very popular in Victorian times but is much much older. c1676 | E.2. | MM106 |
| Discovery | Excellent early dessert apple, crisp and juicy with a hint of strawberry. Reliable and has good disease resistance. | E.3. | MM106 |
| Dymock Red Gloucestershire | A very old vintage cider variety from the village of its name. Also useful for dessert and culinary purposes. | Ci. | sold out |
| Eden Gloucestershire | A dessert variety with Cox in it’s parentage, started in 1948 at Fon’s Orchard between Falfield and Thornbury. | E. | M25, MM106 |
| Ellis Bitter | An old east Devon medium bittersweet cider apple that has good disease resistance. | Ci. | MM106 |
| Green Underleaf Gloucestershire | Grown in Arlingham but also from Oldbury on Severn. According to Pat Turner, in the old days this apple would be “wurded” or ripened in heaps under ‘boltings’ (big thrashed sheaves) of wheat straw. They would turn yellow when ripe and be good for eating. | E.C.Ci | M25 |
| Gypsy Red Gloucestershire | Only known from one farm in Kington near Oldbury on Severn. A distinctive bright red, bitter sharp cider apple. | Ci | sold out |
| Hagloe Crab Gloucestershire | A highly regarded vintage cider variety possibly started as early as 1620 in the hamlet of its name near Awre. Years ago its cider could be `exchanged barrel for barrel for spiritous liquor’. Also a good cooking apple. | Ci | MM106 |
| Harry Masters Jersey | Also known as ‘Port Wine’ well known for it’s full bitter sweet cider | Ci.5. | MM106, M25 |
| Hen’s Turd’s Gloucestershire | A cider variety from Rodley. How it earned its disparaging name is a mystery. | Ci. | MM106, M25 |
| Herefordshire Redstreak | A very old classic variety that very nearly died out, but has now been saved. It produces a slightly red coloured cider | Ci.3. | sold out |
| Herefordshire Russet | A modern russet variety, and probably one of the best-flavoured russet apples available. | E.3. | MM106 |
| Hunts Duke Of Gloucester | An excellent little dessert apple. Said to have been grown from a seed of the old Nonpareil which is now lost. | E. | M25 |
| Jackets and Waistcoats Gloucestershire | White crisp, sweet and mellow. This cultivar is noted for its banana flavour. Also known as ‘Jackets and Petticoats’ in it’s home village of Ashleworth. | E. | MM106, M25 |
| Katy | Bright red heavy cropper. Sweet/acid, firm and juicy. Best known as a dessert apple, but is used commercially as a sweet cider apple too. | E.3 | MM106 |
| Kingston Black Somerset | One of the best known vintage cider varieties, medium bittersharp. Somerset 19th century. | Ci.3. | sold out |
| Lakes Kernel Gloucestershire | A really nice dessert variety from Ashleworth. Thought to have been first grown by Bill Lake of Hartpury, a blacksmith, now deceased. He had a blacksmith’s shop opposite the Royal Exchange public house. Descendants of Mr Lake still live in the neighbourhood of Ashleworth to-day (2000). | E. | MM106, M25 |
| Laxton’s Superb | Sweet and similar to Cox, hardy and reliable. 19th century. | E.4. | MM106, M25 |
| Leathercoat Gloucestershire | First recorded mention in Shakespeare’s Henry IV part 2 when Davy says to Bardolph: “There is a dish of Leathercoats for you,” the scene is laid in Gloucestershire. | E. | MM106, M25 |
| Longney Russet Gloucestershire | An old general purpose variety from the village of its name. Mentioned in 18th Century literature. Stores very well | E.Ci | MM106, M25 |
| Margaret | Also known as Red Joaneting. First grown in 1665, an early dessert apple with a sharp refreshing flavour. | E. | M25 |
| Newton Wonder | Excellent late keeping, yellow and red apple, cooks to a juicy mild puree, or a fruity eater after storing, 19th century. | E.C.5. | MM106 |
| Nine of Diamonds Gloucestershire | A cider variety. Curiously named as it has 10 red spots in the flesh and not 9 as may be expected | Ci | M25 |
| Parlour Door Gloucestershire | A general purpose apple from Apperley, but also known as ‘Seven Square’ at Down Hatherley in the 1950s. Also recorded from China Cross, Corse Lawn. | E.C. | M25 |
| Pigs Snout | Ci | MM106, M25 | |
| Puckrupp Pippin Gloucestershire | General purpose. Found growing in the Apperley area and nearer Gloucester in the past. | E.C. | M25 |
| Red Windsor | Excellent garden variety, disease resistant and a heavy cropper. Self-fertile | E.2 | MM106 |
| Rheads Reinette Gloucestershire | A really nice dessert apple. Raised from seed by William Rhead (1852-1955) at either Elton Farm, Elton or Peglars Farm, Flaxley. | E. | MM106 |
| Ribston Pippin | A very old classic English apple esteemed by the Victorians. Attractive fruit with a strong Cox like flavour. | E.2. | MM106 |
| Rose of Ciren Gloucestershire | A critically rare dessert variety, just 2 known original trees survive. Mr Elwes from Colesbourne Estate recounts that when he took over the estate in 1956 the old gardener, Charlie Neve, identified the tree and said it had come from John Jefferies & Sons, Cirencester. Mr Neve died in 1963 aged just over 80. This seems to be another variety produced by John Jefferies & Son of Siddington. | E. | MM106, M25 |
| Severn Bank Gloucestershire | First recorded in 1884. A previously widespread variety that gained fame by travelling to Midland markets probably by Trow, up the Severn and by train to supply the burgeoning urban population. As well as being a good early cooker, coming at just the right time to accompany blackberry dishes, it is known for producing an early cider ready for Christmas when it is reported to be quite sparkly. | C. | MM106 |
| Siddington Russet Gloucestershire | The nurseries of John Jefferies and Son, Siddington were established in 1795 by Richard Gregory (died 1837) This dessert variety was first grown in 1923 and appeared in the nurseries catalogue in 1930. | E. | MM106 |
| Spartan | Disease resistant and reliable, dark red fruit with crisp white flesh. A very popular variety for the garden. | E.3. | MM106, M25 |
| Sunset | This apple was raised from a Cox’s Orange Pippin seedling by G C Addy, Igtham, Kent c 1918. It was named and introduced in 1933. Received the RHS Award of Merit in 1960. Very similar to Cox but much more disease resistant. It has become a very popular garden substitute for Cox | E.3. | MM106 |
| Tom Putt | Large bright red apple with crimson streaks. Crisp and sharp but sweeter when cooked. Devon 18th century. | C.Ci.3 | M25 |
| Tydeman’s Late Orange | Reliable, rich, sweet, aromatic and trouble free. | E.3. | MM106 |
| Worcester Pearmain | A reliable cropper of fairly early fruit (September). Sweet and juicy with a strawberry flavour. | E.3. | MM106, M25 |
Crab Apples
‘Pink Glow’ Attractive white flowers. Bright pink fruits, excellent for crab apple jelly making. Half Standards = £18 sold out
‘Gorgeous’ – Grown primarily for its attractive large red persistent fruits, but Malus Gorgeous also looks good in spring with its profuse white-pink blossom. It is a good choice if you want to make crab apple jelly. These three year trees will probably flower and fruit this coming summer. Half Standards = £18 sold out
Key ‘A’ (Uses + flowering period if known)
E = Eater (Dessert) C = Cooker (Culinary) Ci = Cider.
1 = Early to 5 = Late
Key ‘B’ (Rootstock availability}
MM106 =semi vigorous
M25 = vigorous
Prices:
Maidens = £15.00
Bush = £16.00-£18-00 depending on size
Half Standard = £18.00-£20.00 depending on size