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Apple Peasgood Nonsuch
Apple Peasgood Nonsuch
€18.00
Apple Peasgood Nonsuch Raised from a pip sown by a Mrs. Peasgood in Lincolnshire in 1858, Apple Peasgood Nonsuch is an attractive and popular dual-purpose apple, a good choice for the home grower. The fruit is very large, round and evenly-shaped, greeny-gold with an orange flush and crimson streaks, often grown for exhibition. The flesh is yello...
Apple Pitmaston Pine Apple
Apple Pitmaston Pine Apple
€18.00
Apple Pitmaston Pine Apple A very old (18th C), mid- to late season, russet dessert apple discovered in Worcestershire, Malus domestica Pitmaston Pine Apple has a distinct pineapple flavour. The fruit is quite small with yellow-golden skin, extensively russeted. The flesh is cream-coloured and crisp, sweet, but with a sherberty tartness and a de...
Apple Pixie
Apple Pixie
€18.00
Apple Pixie A popular dessert apple suitable for colder, wetter areas, Malus domestica Pixie is a very good choice for the home-grower, being compact, easy to grow, a spur-bearer and a good cropper. (It has a tendency to over-crop, in which case the fruit should be thinned early to get bigger apples). Pixie is thought to be a seedling of Cox’s O...
Apple Rawley's Seedling
Apple Rawley's Seedling
€18.00
Apple Rawley’s Seedling An Irish heritage variety of early dessert apple, Apple Rawley’s Seedling is believed to have been planted by a Mrs Rawley at her Co Cork farm in the early 20th century. Small to medium-sized greenish-yellow fruit with an orange blush and a little russeting, excellent Cox-like flavour when eaten fresh from the tree. Much...
Apple Red Devil
Apple Red Devil
€18.00
Apple Red Devil Bred from Apple Discovery in Kent in 1979, mid-season dessert Apple Red Devil is self-fertile, so is a good choice for a single apple tree in a small garden. The fruit is medium-sized and completely and intensely red. The pink-tinged flesh is juicy and sweet, with a good acid balance and strawberry flavour; it gives a beautiful, ...
Apple Red Elstar
Apple Red Elstar
€18.00
Apple Red Elstar A variant of the Dutch-bred Elstar with redder, firmer fruit, late dessert Apple Red Elstar is particularly well adapted to cool Irish conditions. Medium-sized, bright red fruit, with firm, crisp, juicy flesh and an intense, rich, honeyed flavour, reminiscent of Cox’s Orange Pippin. Good keeper – can even last until January with...
Apple Red Falstaff
Apple Red Falstaff
€18.00
Apple Red Falstaff A redder sport of Apple Falstaff, Apple Red Falstaff is a late season dessert apple, and a first-class garden variety for all areas. Medium-sized, attractive fruit, bright red over yellow, with crunchy, firm, creamy-white flesh, very juicy, with a good balance of sweetness and acidity. Good keeper, sweetening in store. Moderat...
Apple Reid’s Seedling
Apple Reid’s Seedling
€22.00
Apple Reid’s Seedling Selected from a seedling by a Mr. Reid in Co. Armagh in the late 19th century, Apple Reid’s Seedling is an Irish heritage variety. A mid-season dessert apple, it has very attractive fruit; large for a dessert apple, it is round to conical in shape, and yellow with a big red blush on one cheek and some red stippling and russ...
Apple Ross Nonpareil
Apple Ross Nonpareil
€18.00
Apple Ross Nonpareil A very old Irish heritage variety of dessert apple, also called French Pippin, as it was first grown in Rosslare from a pip of French origin. Round, medium sized fruit, light greenish-yellow with patches and stripes of red and heavy golden-brown russeting. Rich, aromatic, pear-drop flavour, sweet, with a good acid balance. A...
Apple Rubinette
Apple Rubinette
€18.00
Apple Rubinette Claimed to be ‘the best tasting apple in the world’, late dessert Apple Rubinette was bred from Apples Cox’s Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious in Switzerland in 1966, and takes after its illustrious Cox parent. The fruit is beautifully streaked and flushed with orange-red; it is small, but increases in size as the tree matures....
Apple Sam Young
Apple Sam Young
€18.00
Apple Sam Young An Irish heritage variety, also known as Irish Russet, Apple Sam Young was first recorded in the early 19th century and was widely grown and appreciated throughout the country. A late dessert apple, it is small, round and flattened, green to greenish-yellow, occasionally showing a faint orange blush or red stippling; it is almos...
Apple Scarlet Crofton
Apple Scarlet Crofton
€18.00
Apple Scarlet Crofton Though originally brought from England by the Croftons of Co. Sligo under the reign of Elizabeth I, dessert Apple Scarlet Crofton is nevertheless regarded as an Irish heritage variety. The fruit is medium-sized, flattened on one side, pale yellow to yellowish green with extensive, deep scarlet blush and streaking and net-li...
Apple Sheep's Nose
Apple Sheep's Nose
€28.00
Apple Sheep’s Nose An old English variety, culinary Apple Sheep’s Nose is named for its unusual shape – strongly ribbed with a prominent ‘crown’ like a sheep’s nose. Large, yellowish-green, with a strong pinkish-red mottled flush, its flesh is yellowish, firm and dry with a sub-acid flavour – good for pies because not over-juicy. The tree is mod...
Apple Somerset Redstreak
Apple Somerset Redstreak
€18.00
Apple Somerset Redstreak Dating back to the early 20th century, Apple Somerset Redstreak is still one of the main commercial English bittersweet cider apples. The fruit is medium-sized and glossy red, with bittersweet juice with soft tannins, useable for single vintage cider, or for blending with more astringent apples. Apple Somerset Redstreak ...
Apple Spartan
Apple Spartan
€18.00
Apple Spartan Bred in Canada, dessert Apple Spartan is a popular late dessert apple. The fruit is medium-sized, and yellow, almost completely covered with a very deep maroon-red blush. The flesh is crisp, white and juicy, and the flavour is sweet and rather winy. The tree is easy to look after, moderately vigorous and readily producing spurs; it...
Apple Sunset
Apple Sunset
€18.00
Apple Sunset Bred in Kent in the early 20th century, Apple Sunset is a mid-season dessert apple with most of the virtues of its parent Cox’s Orange Pippin, and few of the disadvantages – an ideal garden apple even in northern areas. The fruit is small to medium-sized, with golden skin streaked and blushed with orange-red and with a little russet...
Apple Sweet Pethyre
Apple Sweet Pethyre
€18.00
Apple Sweet Pethyre Mild Bittersweet cider apple, possibly from Somerset. Apple Sweet Pethyre has good disease resistance. The fruits are large and not very attractive having a dirty looking green colour skin but the flavour of the juice compensates this. Site: Some shelter; needs a sunny siteSoil: Any reasonably well drained, fertile soilPositi...
Apple Three Counties
Apple Three Counties
€18.00
Apple Three Counties A new variety of early bittersweet cider apple, Apple Three Counties was selected in the Long Ashton breeding programme. The fruit is medium-sized and green lightly streaked orange-red. The juice is sweet with low acidity and an astringent quality. Apple Three Counties is a vigorous tree with a good central leader habit; it ...
Apple Tickled Pink (Baya® Marisa)
€18.00
Apple Tickled Pink A new dual purpose apple variety with striking red flesh, Apple Tickled Pink is one of the best of the red-fleshed apples for flavour. The blossom, too, is crimson-red, as are the fruits, making this tree strikingly attractive in spring and autumn. The flavour is tart, mild and juicy, and the fruit can also be cooked, being pa...
Apple Uncle John's Cooker
Apple Uncle John's Cooker
€18.00
Apple Uncle John’s Cooker An Irish heritage variety of cooking apple from Kilkenny, named after the late John Daniels of Piltown. Very large, shiny, red apples with soft, white flesh and a mild taste. Left to ripen on the tree, the fruit develops a sweet, strong, berry flavour and can even be eaten as a dessert apple. Apple ‘Uncle John’s Cooker ...