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Bramshott, Hampshire, unknown date.
Thought pre-Victorian due to uneven shape.
Description: yellow, flushed orange skin, juicy, crisp, slightly aromatic flesh.
Flavour develops in to pear like taste with Sherbert notes.
Flowering: early May
Harvest: Early to mid-August
Season: September to October.
Other notes: Site of original tree now sold, and name of house changed.
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Hampshire cultivar from Southampton of unknown date.
Description: sweet, quite flavour-rich flesh, inside a large striped, flat fruit.
Flowering: early May
Harvest: August
Season: September to October.
Other notes: Makes a strong growing, disease resistant, spreading tree
Culinary
Description: medium sized flat rounded, green with pinky red flush. Quite sharp, crisp flesh.
Flowering: Mid-May
Harvest: October
Season: November to February.
Other notes:
Can also be a dual-purpose fruit with modern tastes
Moderately vigorous growth habit.
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Local Hampshire name for ‘Autumn Pearmain’
Very old apple of English origin, known from the 1500s.
Description: small to medium, round-conical bright scarlet-red fruit. Flesh, cream, dry and firm, with a rich nutty flavour.
Flowering: early May
Harvest: October
Season: October to November
Other notes:
Very confused naming, also known as ‘Herefordshire Pearmain’ and more than 51 synonyms.
Moderately vigorous growth and heavy cropping.
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Raised by Head Gardener, Mr Collister, from Lady Thornycroft’s breeding programme at Steyne House, in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, recorded in 1911.
Description: large, flat-round, golden yellow covered with crimson stripes. Crisp, Juicy with fragrant light flavour but coarse texture and tough skin.
Flowering: mid- May
Harvest: Early October
Season: October to January.
Other notes:
Lady Thornycroft used ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ as the female parent but the pollen source is unknown.
Moderately vigorous tree growth.
Culinary
Raised by G. Wratton in Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight in 1915-16 and introduced in 1932.
Received an RHS Award of Merit in 1929.
Description: very large, slightly lop-sided green fruits with red stripes and purple-red blush and hansom waxy bloom. Firm flesh, creamy white, fine-textured and juicy, quite sweet when ripe.
Flowering: mid-May
Harvest: October
Season: September to February.
Other notes:
Parentage: female ‘Blenheim Orange’ and male ‘Newton Wonder’.
Also, used for Cider and can be eaten raw later in the season.
Tree growth is vigorous and crops heavily. Partially self-fertile.
Dual Purpose
Introduced before 1850, raised in Mrs Eyre Crabbe’s garden, Bassett, Southampton.
Description: medium size, yellow, flushed with red-orange and russet patches.
Flowering: early May
Harvest: late September
Season: November to February..
Other notes:
The garden is now part of the estate of the University of Southampton.
Said to be a a seedling of open pollinated ‘Blenheim Orange’.
Four synonyms of the name are listed in the National Apple Register of the UK.
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Raised at Deacon’s Nursery at Godshill on the Isle of Wight
Description: medium sized round to oblong fruit with a bright yellow skin, sometimes lightly flushed with orange, very juicy, crisp in season, slightly aromatic flesh.
Flowering: early May
Harvest: Early to mid August Season: September to October.
Other notes:
The fruit bruises very easily in transport.
Also called ‘Blushing Beauty’.
Heavy cropping tree.
Culinary
Arose C. 1750 in Hambledon, Hampshire.
Long lasting fruit, hence the ‘two years’ in French tag.
Description: sweet, quite rich, taste in early season. However, with keeping the flavour and acidity fade.
Flowering: mid-May
Harvest: October Season: October.to May
Other notes:
Good cropper but prone to Bitter Pit.
Attractive deep pink blossom
Thought to have been on HMS Victory with Nelson at Trafalgar.