
Reverend W. Wilks
Peasgood’s Nonsuch and Ribston Pippin (direction uncertain). Compact trees producing enormous fruit which bake superbly. Cooks to a light, sweet, pale, lemon purée, hardly needing any sugar. The best early cooker. A delicate fruit, handle with care.

Scotch Dumpling
Large apple, cooks to a well flavoured frothy purée. Very attractive pink flowers.

St Edmund’s Russet
The best mid-season russet. Sweet, juicy, rich, densely textured, pale cream flesh. Very attractive with a golden-red russet and silvery sheen.

Sweet Society
Ingrid Marie x Elstar. Part of a range of plants and trees selected by the RHS to celebrate their Bicentennial in 2004. Sweet Society is an attractive classic Cox type apple, slightly small but with a superb aromatic eating quality. Appearance is similar … Read More