Forgotten to the Core
| Glancing through a 119 year old gardening book recently I came across references to the favourite apples of the time. Whatever became of these strains with their wonderful names ? Apples used for culinary purposes are marked with a 'k'. |
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Alfreston k Barowski Beauty of Kent k Bedfordshire Foundling k Bess Pool k Blenheim Orange k Cornish Gillyflower Court of Wick Devonshire Quarrenden Downton Pippin Dunmelow Seedling k Dutch Codlin k Early Harvest Early Julian Fearn's Pippin k Forge k |
French Crab k Golden Pippin Golden Winter Pearmain k Gooseberry Apple k Hanwell Souring k Hawthornden k Kerry Pippin Keswick Codling k King Pippin Lamb's Pearmain London Pippin k Margaret Melon Monk's Codling k Monstrous Pippin Nonesuch |
Norfolk Bearer k Norfolk Beefing k Northern Greening k Old Nonpareil Oslin Ribston Pippin Scarlet Crofton Skye-House Russet Sturmer Pippin k Summer Pippin Summer Strawberry Winter Colman Winter Majetin k Winter Pearmain k Wyken Pippin Yorkshire Greening k |
Orange Pippins
Egremont Russet
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