Unmistakable for its acutely conic shape, dark red colour and telltale bumps on bottom. Crops well. A columnar ornamental tree with delicious fruit. Sweet. Rare. Noted for having unusually high vitamin C content. A popular old dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands. Has a bright red blush and may have background patches of greens and yellows. And this is just the tip of the iceberg! The blossom is frost hardy resulting in heavy crops and the tree can be grown in all areas of the UK. Tree is a natural semi-dwarf, very hardy and bears heavily annually. Crimson Delight is a multi-purpose apple intended for snacking, baking and fresh recipes. The old heirloom varieties were once, presumably, tied to a particular region or locale and meant for a particular purpose. Large sized fruits with waxy skin, green with a red flush. Available as a russet or smooth. Flesh keeps is shape, and the flavour becomes much stronger with cooking. Cox's Orange Pippin × Delicious. Good storage qualities, but loses fragrance with age. Very pale green skin with an almost white flesh, it is very sharp in taste. It is reputed to have got its name from a ploughman who was caught stealing apples near. Tastes tart, does not do well in cold weather. Early harvest. Peasgood's Nonsuch x Ribston Pippin. 6. Rusty red colour with sweet, crisp taste. Noted for having bright pink flesh. Stores well up to six months. Sometimes called Red Pippin. The fruit is widely sold commercially in the UK. Old French: Unknown: Unknown: Unknown: Old Tankard A sharp cider variety. Excellent keeper. Yellowish apple with reddish blush. Excellent keeper. Eating Antonovka: Kursk, Russia 17th century A very old Russian variety, often planted at dachas. This site uses functional cookies and external scripts to improve your experience. A medium-sized deep red apple. A small to medium-sized conic apple. Fun Fact: Since John McIntosh developed the apple in the early 1800s, it has been used to clone hundreds of varieties in New England, Canada, and Eastern Europe but is rarely found elsewhere. Red colour and large, moderately conspicuous dots. Thanks to the dedication of Victorian gardeners, Britain once cultivated more varieties of apple than anywhere else in the world: more than 2,000 types of apples with all sorts of tastes, textures, shapes and sizes. Tart, firm, stores very well. The fruit shape is uniform and the skin mostly red with some yellow stripes. Good eating and superb for cooking. One of the most widely grown culinary apples of. Many old apple varieties are suitable for people who suffer from allergies. Has red stripes with splashes of green. Strong apple flavour is well-balanced between sweet and sharp. Has very similar flavour to Cox's Orange Pippin. Flavour is sweet and mild. Somewhat tart, ruby red color like parent Red Delicious. Green with dull red flush. Keeps very well. Formerly grown commercially in England for local markets. In the UK alone we have developed over 2,500 varieties of apples (of the 7,000 that exist worldwide). Crisp, juicy, sugary, aromatic, mild subacid. Possibly has crab apple in its ancestry. A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper. A medium-sized conic to truncate-conic apple. From sweet Royal Gala × firm, tart Braeburn. You have to consider your location, the flavor you prefer and why you would want to grow it. Sweet flavor. A medium-sized heavily russeted light green apple, occasionally with a reddish blush. They can be grafted to order, if out of stock. First tree a chance seedling grown in Roxbury, Massachusetts, now a neighborhood of. The trees are vigorous and spreading; while they are generous producers, they may bear only every other year. A popular, cold-tolerant eating apple in North America. A medium-sized, bright greenish-yellow apple with a reddish-brown blush, often on one face only. Very similar appearance to McIntosh, relatively short storage life in air. I’m sure you’ll be ready to start planting in no time. The flesh is crisp and aromatic and the thin skin turns deep red as it develops. Pink Lady. Very versatile in kitchen; not only does it cook well, but makes a good single-variety. Poor keeper; becomes soft quickly. Very old variety for North America. Coppery coloration. Cold-tolerant. Crimson over yellow background colour. Cox's Orange Pippin x Idared. Romes can be found farther south than many varieties because the trees aren’t as dependent on chilly winters to perform. Rich aniseed flavor. Pale green to yellow colour and white flesh. Northerly ( southerly in the refrigerator eaten soon after picking which heirloom apples you ’ ve probably never of. Will only apply to the fall harvest major disadvantages have yet been identified dots. 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