| Tree Fruit |
| Cultivar | Flower | Pick | Season | Description |
| Apple - Culinary |
| Alfriston | Oct | Nov - Apr | Medium sized oblong fruits which are soft, coarse-textured, not very juicy and acid. Cooks to a puree. |
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Mildew resistant |
| Annie Elizabeth | Late | Oct | Dec - Jun | A fine, late-keeping cooking apple. Keeps shape when cooked. Good in N. Exceptional keeper. Mildew |
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resistant |
| Api | Mid Oct | Dec - Apr | Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with an aromatic flavour. Highly decorative fruits |
| Arthur Turner | Mid | Aug - Sept | Aug - Oct | A large cooking apple with somewhat tough skin. Well known for its outstanding blossom. A prolific, reliable |
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cropper, though prone to mildew. |
| Arthur W Barnes | Vigorous upright tree, good cropper. Fruit cooks to a yellow puree |
| Belle de Boskoop | T PTB | Mid | Oct | Dec - Apr | Makes a good dessert apple for Christmas. Fruits have firm, coarse textured flesh with a pleasant, aromatic |
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flavour. Also cooks well |
| Bismarck | Mid | Oct | Nov - Feb | Very hardy, though prone to scab. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with an acid flavour. Cooks |
| Blenheim Orange | DP | Mid | Oct | Nov - Jan | Vigorous, heavy cropper, tends to be biennial bearing. Prone to scab. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat |
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coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with an aromatic flavour. Cooks well, holding shape. |
| Bountiful | Early - Mid | Sept - Oct | Nov - Dec | Very hardy in N, resistant to apple mildew. Takes time to establish but worth it. Fruit size variable. When |
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cooked, Bountiful has a delicious flavour |
| Bramley Clone 20 | Tree smaller than regular Bramley |
| Bramley's Seedling | Mid | Oct | Nov - Mar | The most popular cooking apple grown in the UK. Vigourous tree, needs space. Best on a fairly dwarfing |
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rootstock. Frost prone. Excellent keeper |
| Carlisle Codlin | Early Sept | Sept | Known before 1830, Fruit has a soft but coarse textured, juicy flesh which is slightly acid |
| Cockpit Improved | Mid | Nov | Dec - Apr | Yorkshire apple. Very large fruit. |
| Crawley Beauty | DP | Fruits have slightly coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a sub acid, slightly sweet flavour. |
| Early Victoria | Mid | Aug | Aug - Oct | Heavy cropper; fruits have a yellow skin, are crisp, firm and very acid. Cooks to a fluffy puree. Needs |
| (Emneth Early) | drastic thinning to improve fruit size and prevent biennial brearing. |
| Ecklinville | Mid | Early Sept | Sept - Nov | Large green cooking apple; bruises easily |
| Edward VII | Late | Oct | Dec - Apr | Compact growth, moderate cropper. Scab resistant. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, fairly juicy |
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flesh with an acid flavour. An excellent cooker, cooks to a puree. |
| Florence Bennett | DP | Early to Mid | Sept - Nov | Possibly a pip from a Bramley's Seedling core thrown onto garden rubbish heap |
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Sept |
| Golden Spire | DP | Early | Oct | Oct - Nov | Low vigour but regular cropper. Frost resistant. Fruits have coarse crisp flesh with an acid and astringent |
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flavour, cooks to a yellow purre |
| Grenadier | Mid | Sept | Sept - Oct | Early garden variety. Excellent cropper but does not keep well |
| Howgate Wonder | Late | Oct | Dec -Jan | Fruits have firm, fine textured, juicy flesh which is quite sweet when ripe with a faint aromatic flavour. |
| Keswick Codlin | Mid | Sept | Sept - Oct | Neat decorative tree, profuse blossom |
| Lane's Prince Albert | Mid | Oct | Nov - Mar | Compact tree. Needs good soil. Heavy, dependable cropper. Excellent keeper. Prone to mildew and scab |
| Lord Derby | Late | Oct | Nov - Dec | Fruits are rather coarse texture, somewhat dry with a sub acid flavour. Cooks well |
| Lord Grosvenor | A weak tree but heavy cropping. Small conical green fruit. |
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Northern Fruit Group - Suggested Cultivars of the North. 4th Edition Spring 2006 | Page 1 of 13 |