Varieties

Medium-sized, golden fruit flushed red and russeted. Sweet and aromatic.

Excellent eating apple, also for cooking.

An ancient English apple, cooks to sharp firm puree.

An unusual Victorian variety, primarily a culinary apple but can be eaten fresh. One of the best examples of the aniseed component of apple flavours.

A modern French apple derived from Golden Delicious but with better disease resistance.

Handsome, juicy, versatile English classic - good for old-fashioned English cooking.

Medium in size, flattened shape, and indistinctly ribbed at the eye and on the body. The skin is green and covered with russet. The creamy white finely textured flesh is subacid to slightly sweet in flavor. Savory with mellow acidity; crisp, juicy.

A modern English apple variety, derived from Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious.

Large greenish yellow apple, usually with a pink blush on exposed side. Resembles Golden Delicious in looks and flavor but larger, crisper and more elongated. Crisp, cream colored flesh. Medium-fine texture. Sweet, slightly honeyed, juicy eating and baking apple.

Medium to large fruit smooth, yellowish or greenish-white skin striped with crimson. Flesh juicy, mildly subacid, aromatic with a hint of strawberries. Skin smooth and tough. Pick when skin starts to turn milky.

Often shows dark red stripes and splashes of the solid red fruit. Keeps in storage one month longer than others of it's type.

Fruits are medium in size, round, and bright red. Flesh firm, juicy, white. Flavor subacid, milder than Jonathan but more sprightly than Delicious. Dual purpose, high quality. Keeps well.

Small. Cherry red blush over yellow. Outstanding dessert quality. Very long keeper.

Cider apple. Fruit green with red flush. Bittersweet flavor.

Delightful, easy-going apple, sweet, juicy, crunchy - and some aromatic qualities

Nice apple flavour, sweet but with refreshing sharpness, firm rather than crunchy

A modern Cox-style variety, found growing by a roadside.

Medium sized apple, dark red with some yellow background color. Cinnamon flavored.

An English culinary apple from the 1920s, uncertain origins. Widely known as Royal George.

A popular Victorian dessert apple, named after the village where it was discovered.

A small but pretty red eating apple from Cambridgeshire, with a somewhat sharp flavour which mellows in storage.

A Yorkshire cooker, cooks to a sweet puree. An improved version of the original Cockpit.

A crisp, hard, winter apple which has a strong resemblance to Northern Spy, one of its parents.

Another ancient French cooker, cooks to lemon coloured sweet puree

A traditional late-season dessert apple from France with a good sweet / sharp balance.

Cooking apple in July, eating apple when ripe. Large, ribbed yellow fruit with a firm red juicy flesh. Mild, rich quince flavor and aroma. Very rare.

Very productive, very hardy, large dark red high quality eating apple. Connell Red is a gorgeous Fireside type. A good late keeping apple for northern areas.

Old-fashioned variety from Cornwall, some pineapple flavours, very enjoyable

An important English apple of the Victorian era, with a good sweet aromatic flavour.

One of the more successful McIntosh offspring, with all the usual characteristics, including the sweet vinous flavour.

Marketed as a new non-GMO, non-browning apple, Cosmic Crisp inherits reliability and disease-resistance from Enterprise and crisp flavor from Honeycrisp. Originally known as WA38.

A well-regarded early 20th century cooking apple from the east of England with a good pedigree.

Small to medium. Conical. Golden yellow skin, blushed red and spotted with russet. Flavor is strong and fruity.

Ancient French dessert variety, rich intense unique flavour

This is the benchmark for flavor in apples - from a good tree in a good year it can achieve exceptional flavor.

Primarily a culinary variety, cooks to a puree with a delicate apple flavour - but can be eaten fresh after storing. Good disease resistance and tolerates a wide range of soil types.

Does not color well. Softens in storage. Greasy skin.

Small to medium. Very bright mid-range red over yellow. Extremely crisp. Very good, rich flavor. Sweet/sharp flavor, spicy. Originally known as Coop 39.

Larger fruit with dark red skin underlaid with stripes. Crisp pure white flesh resists browning when cut. Tart tangy flavor. Dessert quality. Excellent for eating out of hand, cooking, and cider.

Red Delicious shape, Yellow Delicious character. Yellowish green skin with a beautiful distinctive reddish pink blush. Mildly sweet flesh. Good for fresh eating, cooking, freezing, drying.

An excellent new variety from France - sweet, crisp, juicy - one of the best mid-season varieties.

An old apple variety from the county of Essex in south-east England with several unusual characteristics, and notable for its spice-like flavour.

A very high quality English cider variety, provides a bittersweet juice for cider making.

Essentially an improved Elstar, with a bit more sharpness.

A modern yellow apple developed in France. Being promoted in the UK by M&S under the name Amelia.

Bright red. McIntosh flavor. Keeps 3 months (very long for its season).

Highly colored, bright red, distinctly flavored, of Baldwin texture and keeping qualities. Good, brisk taste, hint of strawberry flavor, crisp and juicy.

A good-looking dessert variety, fairly sharp flavour

Fruit is medium-large, full red and sweet.

Probably the oldest variety in existence, thought to date back to Roman times

Medium, oblong, conical shape. Golden yellow with orange blush. Lenticels prominent. Crisp, firm, and juicy. Sweet, subacid, intensely aromatic to some. Keeps well.

Full sized, dark red fruits shaped like a Delicious. Sweet, crisp, juicy, white flesh. Good fresh and for pies. Keeps into the winter.

One of the most famous and important American apple varieties. The original Delicious has a flavor that many find superior to the numerous sports such as Red Delicious that have been developed from it.

A good quality early-season variety, developed by the Delbard nursery in France, with an interesting pedigree. Deserves to be more widely grown.

Classic deep red apple. Soft, snow white flesh. Curious ridges about the calyx.

A very old English apple variety, historically important because of its strawberry-like flavour.

Sharp puree, crisp juicy dessert later in season

An old heavy-cropping early-season apple variety from Belgium.

A popular English early apple variety, and a good choice for the garden.