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Apple Scion Wood ListScion wood available for grafting 2010 60 + varieties - we believe these names are correct at the best of our knowledge! Please contact us with any corrections or additional information. $1.00 each plus $2.50 P & P for up to twenty 15cm approx scions or available at Southland Grafting workshops Sept/Oct Note some are limited so please give an extra couple of choices. Adams Pearmain* 1826 Heredfordshire A popular Edwardian and Victorian eating apple. Fruits are juicy and a little sweet, with a pleasant aromatic flavour. Ready early April. Akane (K) * 1937 Japan Worcester Pearmain x Jonathan early-mid Dessert and drying. Small red, juicy, crisp- medium vigour , good cropper. Hangs on tree when ripe so can pick over time. Allen's Everlasting* UK 1864 firm Juicy flesh, small compact apple ready mid April Alexander (K) * Russia 1700’s March.. green with red stripes Ready may/June ex for sauce, but doesn’t keep Alfriston *Raised in the late 1700's by Mr Shepherd at Uckfield, Sussex. Named Shepherds Pippin but renamed Alfriston in 1819. Fruits are soft, dense and acidic. Good cooker. Ready April. Keeps 5-6 months SOLD OUT 09 Belle de Boskoop * . AKA Gold Reinette (K) Netherlands 1856 by K Ottolander (triploid) Mid season?. Large size, irregular, gold-red skin covered in russet, yellow flesh. Firm, juicy, acidic and aromatic flavour. High in vitamin C. Excellent for desert, stewing and baking and cider. Stores very well 3-4 Months and gets sweet enough to eat raw when stored. Benomi* Early season, small gold with orange blush and red stripe. Yellow flesh, fine, tender, juicy, aromic refreshing . Dessert and juice. Massachusetts USA 1832 Mr E M Richards Black Prince (K) * Mid-late season. Large size with dark flesh. Dessert or cooking apple. Blenheim Orange (K) Not available 2010 but will be 2011 1740 by Mr. Kempster - (originally called Kemsters Pippin) at Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxford shire England. Mid/Late May/June . Dessert , large flat round, yellow with red stripes (triploid) Keeps 3-4 Months.''' Bramley's Seedling * Origin: Nottinghamshire England, 1809 from a seedling in Betsy Braislfords garden later owned by Mr Bramley a local butcher! (triploid) Late- Very late season. Large size, green-yellow with red stripes, irregular shape. Most popular cooker in UK. Excellent for baking cooks to a golden puree ,excellent for pies, also cider and juicing. Vigorous tree with good disease resistance High in vitamin C. Keeps well and sweetens on storage, crops heavily every second year. Brownlees Russet * William Browlees Hempstead, Hertfordshire UK 1848 late…May self fertile. Medium size, slight Brown/red flush and brown russet. Juicy Crisp and sweet. Good crops but not regular. Tolerated cooler, wetter climates. Burr knot* Charles Ross * (Peasgood crossed with Cox Orange). Like a large Cox Orange Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire. 1890 Fruits are rather coarse-textured, juicy and sweet with a moderate flavour. Good all round apple for eating cooking, juice or cider. Keeps shape when cooked. Ready March. Not a keeper use or process fresh. Claygate Pearmain (K) Not available 2010 but will be 2011 Discovered by John Braddick at Claygate, Surrey and exhibited to the Horticultural Society in 1821. Fruits have firm, rather coarse textured juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour. 1823 John Braddick Esq. found tree growing in hedge in Claygate, Surrey Green with red blush and russetting. Late eating, sweet and aromatic almost tastes like pinnapple- fresh eating Cornish Aromatic Not available 2010 but will be 2011 First described 1813 Cronwall but thought to be Centuries old. Mid/late season. Eating knobby/ribbed (5 crowned) , Greeny/Yellow with bright red stripes, with yellow flesh. Dry sweet and almost spicey flavour. Vigorous, prefers wetter climate. Cox Orange Pippin * (K) 1825 Slough, Buckinghamshire by a Mr. Richard Cox Medium size, gold-yellow skin, red blush, faint stripes with some russet. Tender, crisp, very juicy, sweet, slightly sub-acid and aromatic. Excellent dessert apple Good for juicing. Early – mid ( March/April) Described once as “the finest dessert apple in existence. Crimson Bramley* A more highly coloured sport of Bramley's Seedling. Originated in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Catalogued in 1913. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, juicy flesh with an acid flavour. Cooks well. Discovery * Raised in about 1949 by Mr Drummer, a workman on an Essex fruit farm. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a fairly sweet and pleasant flavour. Early eating apple, a cross between Worchester Pearmain and Beauty of Bath. Worcester Pearmain Cross – early January. Red with yellow flush. Sweet, juicy, good flavour. Flowers resist frost. Slow to come in to bearing then a good cropper. Ellisons Orange* Raised by Rev. C.C. Ellison, Lincolnshire. First recorded in 1904. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a rich and strong aniseed flavour. Cox Orange cross ready mid March. Fairbelle or Belle Bonne * Late March-April. Lareg size, rosy red. Excellent Cooker and Desert apple. Cooks to a pulp. A very healthy disease resistant tree. Gloria Mundi (K) * (Means ‘and so the glory of the world passes’) Germany 1840 ( or USA 1804?) ready April/ May Golden Hornet (K) * Universal Pollinater for all apple trees because it has an extended flowering season. Prolific tiny yellow fruit. Golden Noble Not available 2010 but will be 2011 Patrick Flannigan Norfolk mid season, good cooker/preserver Golden Pippin * American Golden Pippin * English Gooseberry Pippin * small abundant apples- lively flavour. Yellowy/green with dark flush and stripes. Excellent Cooker and keeper. Gooseberry* (Unconfirmed ID) large big green cooker (AKA Mrs Grants last Stand) Raised in England, probably Kent. It was first recorded in 1831. Fruits have coarse-textured, fairly juicy flesh with a very acid and rather astringent flavour.Ready Late April. Grenadier* First recorded in 1862 and introduced to commerce in about 1875. . The most widely grown early commercial cooking apple in the UK. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with an acid flavour. Cooks well to a froth. Hetlina * Origin: Czechoslovakia. Early-mid season. Medium size, red dessert apple, crisp and firm flesh. One of the top antioxidant rating varieties in the recent Hort Research work (http://www.treecrops.org.nz/resrch/apple/applecanc.html) Irish Peach (K) * Prolific cropper 1870’s Sligo Ireland Early Dessert Jan/Feb Yellow flushed brownish red. . Juicy, crisp, delicious sweet-sharp flavour. eat from tree doesn’t store Jonogold * (Triploid) (K) 1943 New York Golden Delicious X Jonathon Dark red with stripes. Good Keeper. Mid season April Jonathan * New York. 1826. Fine, juicy flesh. Sweet and tasty. Eating apple, ready early April. Keeps 2-3 months. Kentish Fill Basket (K)* Origin: Kent England, 1820. Mid-late season. Large pale green apple with red streaks. Excellent for dessert or processing. Vigorous disease resistant tree. Keswick Codlin * (K) Early Season cooks up soft and fluffy. Doesn’t keep long 2-3 weeks- good for processing. Lincolnshire 1793 in a Castle rubbish dump! Kidd’s Orange Red (K)* Greytown NZ 1924 Cox Orange X Delicious mid/late April/May Crimson with dark stripes, juicy, crisp and sweet, strong flavour. Keeps well, reliable cropper but leave on tree when possible for best flavour. Good for cooler areas. Kingston Black * Kingston Somerset late 1800’s April - Small yellow with maroon flush. Excellent Cider apple-vigorous tree, keeps well fair cropper Lady Suddley * 1849 by a cottager Jacob Petworth Sussex originally called Jacobs Strawberry desert - Early –March Self fertile, medium striped red and pink. Juicy, firm, good cropper. Suited to cooler areas. Laxtons Fortune* Liberty (K) * New York 1978 Macoun X Purdue April/May Bright red flush, juicy crisp, sharp-sweet flavour. Keeps well, vigorous tree, good cropper. Lord Suffield (K) * 1831 by Thomas Thorpe a handloom weaver on Lord Suffields Estate, Middleton near Manchester. Early cooker with clear yellow skin. Lord Wolseley (K) * Origin: England 1850 Mid season March/ April, large yellow flushed with red. Juicy crisp apple. Good cooker and stores well. Merton Russet Not available 2010 but will be 2011 England 1921 Sturmer x Cox Orange. Very late to ripen. Yellow flush with dull red and russetted. Firm flesh. Crisp, tender and sweet. Merton Worchester Not available 2010 but will be 2011 Parentage: Cox Orange Pippin and Worchester Pearmain. Ready early Feb. Round Medium size, yellow-green with a scarlet flush. Flesh creamy white, firm, sweet and aromatic. Vigourous tree with good regular cropping. Miniers Dumpling* Monties Surprise * Origin: 90 year old seedling from Nth Island New Zealand. One of the top anti-oxidant rating varieties. Large- red streaks, dessert or cooking variety. Hardy and good disease resistance. Mid season. Morgan's Sweet * Munroes Favourite A.K.A. Dunn's Seedling* Said to have been raised by Mr Condor at Kew, Melbourne, Australia. First recorded in the UK in 1890. It was introduced by Mr Munroe. Fruits have crisp, hard flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour. Ready mid April Norfolk Beefing * (K) England pre 1840 late green/yellow with dull red blush Peasgood Non Such (K) * Raised (reputedly) by Mrs. Peasgood who is said to have grown the tree in a pot from a seed of a ‘Cathead’, Lincolnshire, about 1858. Mid . ( April) Flattish round, very large apple. Golden yellow-greenish with bright crimson flush. Flesh yellowish, soft, very juicy, sub-acid and aromatic. Pulps up well when cooked. Growth vigorous makes a large spreading tree. Cropping good. Probably self fertile. Pippin Five Crown or London* not sure which yet! Prima (K) * Origin: USA, 1957. Mid season. Medium size, bright red blush with green stripe. Juicy, sweet and sub acid. Excellent quality and very healthy tree with exceptional disease resistance. Priscilla * Indianna 1972 large, late, green cooker. Prince Elfrin * Ralls Janet * French pre 1800 or USA? Late season Yellow/green with shades of red stripes with yellow flesh. med large, crisp juicy excellent keeper. Heavy and reliable cropper. Renette de Canada (K) * 1771 Normandy France mid-late season, eating or cooking. Green with good flavour Good keeper. Rhode Island Greening *Triploid. Rhode Island USA - 1650. Fruits have coarse, juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour. Pick April. keeps 5-6 months. Ribston Pippin * (Triploid) (K) Yorkshire 1688 Needs shelter or its fruit will drop early. Yellowy green with orange/red blush. Mid season highly esteemed for eating , sauce,and cooking. First tree lived for 220 years near Ribston Hall. Keeps well and flavour increases as it ages. Best pip to use if you want to grow a new tree from a seedling. Roke wood (K) * Australian, ready April. Lovely crisp sweet red and green eating apple. Good reliable cropper. Healthly disease free. Ross Non Pareil (K)* 1802 Meath Ireland Fruits have firm, rather dry flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour. Eating apple ready late March/ early April Scarlet Non Pareil* Surrey 1816. Eating and cooking medium sized striped red apple ready May June. Spartan * 1926 Canada McIntosh X yellow Newton Pippin. Mid season keeps well red apple like delicious- crisp and juicy- leave on tree for best flavour- can keep but flavour declines. Good crops. Self fertile Sunset * 1918 Kent - disease resistant, heavy cropper mid season. Small –med Orange with red stripe. Similar to Cox Orange. as raised from a seed of one. Self fertile, prefers cool, dry climate. Surprise * 1905 April Late season, Large round conical lemon-yellow with brownish red flush. Flesh is juicy,tender,slightly yellowand sweet. Stores well. Summer Stillbert* Tan Montgomery (K) * A.K.A. Early Julian Thought to have originated in Scotland. It was known before 1800. Fruits have crisp flesh with an acid flavour. Cooking and eating. Ready early March. Tydeman's Late Orange * Kent (East Malling Research Station) 1930 Laxtons superb X Cox Orange Very late dessert apple, picking may. Keeps very well in natural storage through until following spring. Medium size, roundish to slightly conical shape, golden yellow tinged green with orange-red flush. Flesh cream, firm, crisp, sweet sub-acid and aromatic. Vigorous tree with high yield. Prefers cool and dry. Worchester Pearmain (K) * Mr Hale of Swan Pool near Worter England 1874. Early March –gorgeous strawberry hint in flavour. Red stripes over green. Crisp and juicy. White Flesh. Heavy regular bearer- loved by children. Yorkshire Greening * (K) Coaies Yorkshire Goose Sauce).—Large, roundish, irregular, and flattened. Skin dark green, striped with dull red next the sun. Stalk short and thick. Eye closed. Flesh white, and pleasantly acid. One of the best kitchen apples. April - keeps 3-4 months We have yet un-named scion wood from several old Southland orchards or trees if you remember a good orchard or tree contact us and we may have a cutting for you! These will be saved identified and appear on next years list |