Golden Spire apple

Golden Spire apple identification images

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USDA identification images for Golden Spire

The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.

Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.

Visitor reviews

• 16 Sep 2023  Liz Hindley

  Our school has a small orchard where these apples grow. Just had the most amazing home grown apple crumble made by the school cook. Gardening Club children picked them. Afterschool club children peeled them. We all enjoyed eating the crumble!
• 22 Feb 2023  Raphael

  It is a wonderful apple - best for eating by older people not brought up on the many very sweet apples now on sale. It is also a very good cooking apple.
• 19 Oct 2022  John Childs

  We have an old, lichened Golden Spire in our garden. Beautiful blossom and crops heavily every other year. We use it as an eater, firm and crisp, and for cider making.
• 27 Feb 2021  Kristian KøVenerAGDER, Norway

  Even in Norway, homeland of damp, cool weather, including infrequent summers, this cultivar, more or less, every second year, displays impressive elongated fruits of enjoyable fresh taste, comparable to the high, but rare autumn blue skies.
• 06 Dec 2015  ColindunROSS & CROMARTY, United Kingdom

  I've just had an apple tree in a local hedgerow identified as. golden Spire by Brogdale. It's about 10 miles north of Inverness, and I haven't the foggiest how it got here. Now that I know what it is I may try growing some from piosnext year.
• 10 Nov 2012  Tim CollinsUnited Kingdom

  My mother has an old Golden Spire in her orchard. The fruit has a very distinctive, firm flesh with a slightly sour aftertaste - cidery, as some other reviews have said. It is an excellent eating apple, as well as being good for purees and baking
• 21 Oct 2012  Paul StamperNORTHAMPTONSHIRE, United Kingdom

  My grandparents had one in their large garden at Wollaston, Northants. It was probably planted in the late 19th century when the house was built. I knew it in the 1960s when I was a boy, and well remember its distinctive smell and taste (my mum, in her 80s, has just recently told me the variety). I intend to plant one in my garden. One practical point: as I remember, it's not a great keeper - one to be used early and enjoyed.
• 05 Oct 2009  CliveYORK, United Kingdom

  There's one growing in Kylemore Abbey near Galway. I filched a couple of windfalls, lovely fresh taste. The tree looked great too, covered in fantastic lichens
• 26 Oct 2008  AllisonGLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom

  My neighbour has just brought us over a load of these. They're oddly mis-shapen apples, with greenie yellow skin and pale, creamy white flesh.There is a little sharpness, but it's not unpleasant, with a cidery back-taste as previously mentioned. Eight of us have tried, including my two year-old, and we all agree, it's a thumbs up for eating/cooking.
• 11 Oct 2008  Alan MountneySTAFFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom

  We have this variety growing in our garden and happily eat them straight of the branch. Good taste, sweet but with a 'cidery' hint to it. Crops well, unfortunately the wasps also love the apples.
• 18 Sep 2008  JaimeLANCASTER, United States

  Just tried one of these - I agree ! Fabulous cidery back-taste, perfectly edible (or at least the one i have just eaten was!). Probably best to classify as a 'Cooking/Eating' variety. Didn't this apple originate in Lancashire?

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Where to buy fresh fruit

The following orchards grow Golden Spire:

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• England - north

  • Six Nine Orchard, Prudhoe

References

• Apples of England (1948)
  Author: Taylor