AKANE

Dessert, second early pick, Japan, progeny of Jonathan, medium size, red striped, very crisp and sweet. Prolific cropper. Stores and carries well. Flowers mid-season, a good early fruit.(Akane' means 'the red of the sunset'....it is also a Japanese girls name.)

ALEXANDER

Dual purpose. Mid season. Originated in Russia about 1700. Very large, red orange blush, soft sweet, easy bite flesh, lovely flavour. Noble appearance.

BEAUTY OF BATH

Dessert, early pick, ripens Dec/Jan. Flowers early to mid-season. Self fertile. Originated in Somerset, England 1860. Medium sized flushed striped, sweet fragrant and juicy. Prolific bearer, pretty in fruit and in flower.

BEAUTY OF STOKE

Dual purpose, medium sized, yellow russeted, good sub acid. Sweet firm flesh, cooks to a bright lemon yellow. Valuable late harvest variety

BELLE de BOSKOOP

Mid-late harvest. Flowers early to mid season. Medium/large fruit, yellow with a flush and some russet. Firm, juicy aromatic, acid. Cooks to a golden yellow. Recommended as an ornamental tree. Valuable apple. Old Dut ch favourite.

BONZA

Dual purpose. Flowers mid season. (And as the name suggests from Batlow, Australia 1950). Largish, red, crisp, juicy, sweet. A good looker and deserves to be more widely grown.

BRAEBURN RED

Dual purpose. Flowers early to mid-season. Mid-late harvest. New Zealand. Medium size red striped. Crisp, juicy, aromatic sweet sub-acid and of high flavour. Precocious bearer and self fertile.

BRAMLEY'S SEEDLING

Cooker, late harvest, England 1809. Large green, red brown flush. Firm and acid, most popular English cooking apple. Cooks to a pale cream puree' with good acidity and flavour.(*see MAIDEN'S BLUSH)

(The original tree still lives and fruits!..)

CALVILLE BLANC d'HIVER

Dual purpose, late harvest. Flowers mid-season. Originated in France or Germany about 1600. Medium large, green-yellow with a blush. Delicately sweet and sharp. Crops well, cooks well. (Retains shape in tarts.) Reputed to be a good cider apple in Normandy. (...and when fresh contains as much Vitamin C as an Orange.)

CORNISH AROMATIC

Late harvest. Dessert. Flowers mid to late season. Originated England pre-1700. Medium sized. Yellow, flushed with russet. Vigorous good cropper and spicily aromatic. High quality dessert variety.

CORNISH GILLIFLOWER

Late harvest. Flowers midseason. Originated Cornwall, England 1800.Large and flushed red-brown. Richly aromatic. Intense flavour. Similar to RIBSTON PIPPIN. Excellent high quality dessert apple.

COURT PENDU PLAT (WiseApple)

Valuable dessert apple dating from Roman times. (Found growing among Gallic Roman ruins in France). Small tree. Very late flowering...(often misses frosts). Late harvest. Rich, fruity with a Pineapple-like acidity. Flushed, russeted, rich and perfumed.

COX'S ORANGE PIPPIN

One of the famous apples. U.K. 1825. Mid season harvest. A seedling of RIBSTON PIPPIN. Deliciously sweet. Enticing, rich intense flavour of great complexity. Flushed and russeted. (*see FREYBURG, ELSTAR, LAXTON'S FORTUNE, LAXTON'S SUPERB, LORD LAMBOURNE and RIBSTON PIPPIN.)

EGREMONT RUSSET

Dessert. Mid season. U.K. 1872. (Arose on the Estate of Lord Egremont in Sussex). Distinctly nutty flavour. Sweetly aromatic. Good home garden variety. Distinctive aroma. one of the richest late autumn fruits.

Has been described as ("...having the scent of crushed ferns, with a tannic, smoky quality after keeping..." - Morton Shand).

ELSTAR

Dessert. Mid season harvest. Holland 1955. A Golden Delicious cross...(but more intensely flavoured. Honeyed, cri sp juicy flesh. (Said to be even better than COX'S ORANGE PIPPIN and easier to grow).

EMPIRE

Dessert, early - mid pick, seedling of McINTOSH. Smallish spreading tree. Bright red, flushed and bloomed. Good cropper. Sweet and scented. Resists bruising.

ESOPUS SPITZENBURG

Dual purpose apple. Mid-late harvest. USA pre 1790. Large beautiful fruit. Bright red, rich, fuity. Sparkling acidity. Very crisp pale yellow flesh. Sub acid. Good for pies and a choice dessert apple. (Said to be a favourite of Thomas Jefferson...).

FENOUILLET GRIS - (Caraway russet)

Late pick. Flowers early to mid season. Dessert. Very decorative tree. France 1628...(One of the 7 principal apples grown at Versailles'). Striking in appearance, dark red flush with a grey russet lace. Crisp very sweet with an aniseed flavour. An excellent dessert apple.

FREYBURG

Dessert, mid - late pick. NZ 1934. Golden Delicious/COX'S ORANGE PIPPIN cross. Medium sized yellow with a trace of russet, amazingly strong scented cocktail of flavours. Firm, juicy with wonderful flavour increasing on tree.

FUJI

Dessert apple. Mid-late season. Japan 1939. Attractive orange-red flushed. Honeyed sweetness. Juicy, good regular cropper. (Two strains available...Naga Fu No 2. and Fuji Brazil.) Popular new variety. (Tree ripened, tastes much better than the supermarket variety.)
("It's a Fuji, Gods own sweet apple' Tim Winton - 'Dirt Music' - Picador 2001)

GEEVESTON FANNY

Dual purpose. Flowers early to mid season. Tasmania 1870. Small, attractively flushed purple-red. Aromatic, sweet. A heavy cropper, requires thinning

GOLDEN HARVEY

Late. U&.K. early 1600's. Popular Victorian dessert and cider apple. (Due to it's high specific gravity of juice; hence 'strong' cider). Small to medium sized. Crisp. Golden, flushed and russeted, with intense sweet/sharp flavour.

GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE

Dual purpose. Early Harvest. Dessert. Russia pre 1850. Very large, blushed sweet - sub acid. Crisp with good flavour, a good looker.

GRANNY SMITH

Dual Purpose, late pick. Originated in NSW in 1860's. Sub acid. Green turning yellow and tasting great if left to ripen properly. (Australia's most famous apple and remains a major international variety).

GRAVENSTEIN

Famous early apple. Flowers Early to mid season. Early to second early harvest. Europe early 1600's. Large flushed, striped, crisp, aromatic. Popular and valuable. Tree ripened they develop a wonderful flavour and colour. Vigorous grower.