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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 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 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 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 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 ...
Apple Widow's Friend

Apple Widow's Friend
€18.00
Apple Widow’s Friend Once widely grown in Co Armagh, Apple Widow’s Friend is an early dessert apple and a prolific cropper, hence, no doubt, the name! Variably sized fruit, round to conical, with a rather irregular shape, pale yellow with a large area of crimson blush and a few flecks of russet. The flesh is white, soft and very juicy, with a go...
Apple Winston

Apple Winston
€18.00
Apple Winston Bred in Berkshire in the first half of the 20th century, late dessert Apple Winston is nevertheless suitable for all areas, and is an excellent garden tree. The fruit is small to medium-sized, yellowish-green, flushed and streaked red. The flesh is light cream, crisp and juicy; the taste eaten from the tree is quite sharp, but it s...
Apple Worcester Pearmain

Apple Worcester Pearmain
€18.00
Apple Worcester Pearmain This old favourite was bred in Worcestershire at the end of the 19th century, and is thought to be a seedling of Apple Devonshire Quarrenden. An early to mid-season dessert apple, Apple Worcester Pearmain bears very attractive apples, round and slightly lop-sided, yellowish green almost completely covered with a vivid re...
Apple Yellow Ingestrie

Apple Yellow Ingestrie
€18.00
Apple Yellow Ingestrie A very old English apple, dating back to the early 19th century, Apple Yellow Ingestrie is a early to mid-season dessert apple which makes a lovely specimen tree for a garden. The fruit is rather small, round and bright yellow; the flesh is also yellow, crisp and fine-textured with a sharp-sweet ‘apple-y’ flavour. The tree...