Varieties

Originates from East Anglia in the 1600s. Named after Dr Gabriel Harvey of Cambridge.

Red and red-striped skin with fine crisp, juicy, creamy flesh. It has a mild but aromatic flavor. An excellent keeper.

A primitive green culinary apple, peculiar to the county of Yorkshire.

A remarkable early-season apple, well-adapted to tropical climates and with a very low chill requirement.

An attractive early-season apple, originating from Russia in the 18th century, and now quite widely grown in northern Europe and the USA.

Duchess's Favourite is a small red traditional summer eating apple from the 19th century.

An important Victorian apple with a distinctive fruity flavour, and often russeted. Continues to be quietly popular.

Deep red apple with a faint stripe and pronounced lenticels. Flesh is white, crisp and enhanced with a mild, sweet flavor that is very aromatic.

One of the best cooking apples of the Victoria era. More correctly known as Dumeller's Seedling.

Dunkerton's Late is a traditional cider variety, producing a light sweet cider.

An old Dutch or English dual-purpose late-season apple, which maintains a good flavour in storage.

These semi-tart apples are crisp with just the right mixture of sweetness and zip for fresh off the tree eating. Smooth striped skin is cherry red and very attractive.

As an early season apple, Earligold is a good eating and cooking apple.

Similar to regular Fuji, but harvests six weeks earlier.

Cooking apple, especially good for sauce, and eating apple when fully ripe. Golden with slight blush of brownish orange. Crisp, tender, creamy white flesh with subacid flavor

Small, sprightly, aromatically flavored with solid rich dark red skin and crisp yellowish flesh sometimes streaked with red.

A large apple with a firmer flesh than Yellow Delicious and a fine strawberry aroma.

Eden is a cross between John Standish and Cox's Orange Pippin, and was released in the 1950s. Like Cox it is ripe in mid-September.

Developed in Canada in the 1970s and introduced around 2006 under the trade name Eden, the flesh of this variety does not turn brown when cut. Not to be confused with the English variety called Eden which was introduced in the 1950s.

Medium size. Red blush over cream.

A popular English garden cooking apple, very easy to grow.

The definitive English russet apple, with the charateristic sweet/dry 'nutty' flavour.

Ein Shemer is one of the best-known low-chill apple varieties, able to fruit reliably in climates which have little or no winter chill.

A new apple variety developed to have low levels of the allergenic compounds which can cause mild allergic reaction to apples in some people.

One of the best offspring of Cox's Orange Pippin, with a distinct aniseed flavor.

One of the best Golden Delicious offspring, the sweet/sharp flavor is more reminscent of Cox's Orange Pippin.

An attractive early-season English apple, related to James Grieve.

Also known as Early Victoria, Emneth Early is a very early-season 'codlin' type apple. It was grown commercially in East Anglia and elsewhere, particularly for jam production.

One of the best McIntosh-style apples, with a good sweet vinous flavor, and easy to grow.

Fruit is medium sized, 90% red, with excellent eating quality and the aromatics of Jonamac.

A modern American late-season disease-resistant apple with a sharp flavor and good keeping qualities.

Envy is a very recent introduction from New Zealand which has quickly established itself as one of the top-selling apple varieties.

Small, firm early apple. Very good dessert quality. Often known as Laxton's Epicure.

Eating apple. Medium size fruit, deep yellow skin with stripes. Flesh especially hard and crisp with sweet aromatic flavor.

One of the great American apple varieties, thought to be Thomas Jefferson's favourite. Noted for its spicy flavour, and for its susceptibility to any and every disease afflicting apples.

A very good early/mid-season apple from France, also known as Delcorf and Delbarestivale.

Medium to large, greenish yellow fruit ripening to a clear golden color. Excellent eating quality. Good for cooking. Flesh remains crisp and juicy even after months in storage.

Evelina is a red-coloured sport of Pinova, a modern disease-resistant apple related to Golden Delicious and Cox's Orange Pippin.

More acid than Jonagold.

Small to medium size. Red stripes over greenish yellow. Crisp, sweet, juicy with sharp flavor.

Large, yellow fall apple. Good flavor and keeper. Flesh tender, rich and of very good quality. Excellent for eating but especially desirable for culinary use.

Good sauce and culinary apple. Large, green fruit turning to light green upon ripening. Sometimes over 6 inches in diameter. Subacid to mildly sweet flavor.

Popular garden apple tree, very heavy crops, easy to grow, very juicy.

A very hardy apple variety. Also known as the Snow Apple of Quebec, from plantings in early French settlements in Quebec.

An attractive old English dessert variety from the 18th century.

An early season English apple, ripens in mid-August. The flavour is sweeter than most early varieties.

One of the best Cox-style apples, and much easier to grow. Often marketed as Red Pippin.

Considered one of the best seedlings of Gravenstein.

Large conical fruit. Green skin with scarlet stripes and sometimes a mottled orange flush. Crisp, sweet, juicy greenish white to yellow flesh. Excellent eating apple.

Flesh is fine textured and very sweet. Good russet resistance. Sizes easily to 3' and hangs well on the tree.

Medium size. Green.

A columnar or ballarina style apple variety.

Medium to large. Very attractive purple-red over yellow. Medium firm. Aromatic. Keeps well.

Versatile cooker, recommended for apple charlotte. It is a good variety for attracting deer as the apples stay on the tree into winter.

A very good North American eating apple with a 'spicy' flavor. Fruit large, with an attractive color. Flesh yellow. Subject to bitter pit.

A surprisingly good-looking Victorian cooking apple, which cooks to a very sharp puree

Dusky red skin, flesh is considered bitter sharp. Strictly for cider.

Well-colored fruit. Tender, crisp flesh, mild flavor. Resembles shape of Delicious, but far superior in eating quality.

Medium sized fruit with greenish-yellow skin flushed and striped with red and with russet dots. Flesh is firm, crisp, white and fine-textured with a sweet subacid flavor.

Good multi-use apple. Medium to large red fruit on almost invisible yellow skin. Crisp, juicy, sweet, good-tasting flesh. Subacid, sprightly flavor.