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* Scottish Varieties
| Arbroath Oslin * | I first came across this small yellow apple piled up in a wheelbarrow in September in a Perthshire orchard....and what a heavenly aroma! A lovely tree, it sometimes has aerial roots...eh? | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Ard Cairn Russet | I was handed a fruit from this variety to munch a few years ago, and the distinctive sweet taste stayed in my mind ever since. I had to have it. Very sweet, and a golden rusett. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Arthur Turner | John Butterworth rates this vigorous cooker highly, especially for exposed situations where others would fail. Its vigorous and an early cooker. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Bloody Ploughman * | The seedling that grew out of the bones of the ploughman shot scrumping apples at Megginch Castle, Perthshire. Can your collection be complete without one? | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Beauty of Moray * | Cooks to a strongly flavoured cream puree....one for the freezer and winter puddings. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Beauty of Bath | An early apple to set your season off. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Bramley’s Seedling | Aye, the best cooker, scab free, but very vigorous for small gardens. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Lemon Queen * | A nice medium lemon coloured apple, an old variety. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Cambusnethan Pippin * | This is a nice looking red striped dual apple, I find it quite sweet. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Coul Blush * | A soft fleshed golden apple, cooks to a lemon froth according to Joan Morgan. A Ross-shire apple....that’s very far north! A tree laden in John Butterworth’s Apple Book page 26. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Court Pendu Plat | Known for centuries as the ‘’Wise Apple’’ because it flowers late and misses trhe frost. Now thats a good recommendation alone without adding how nice the wee little red apples are. Add a golden noble and you well get better pollination. A late flowerer, but a lovely little apple. Plant Golden Noble or other late flowerer to improve pollination. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Early Julyan ( Tam Montgomery ) * | A Clydeside apple (reputedly). Very early yellow fruit, the first dual purpose fruit at my local Elcho Castle Orchard. I have seen these go to waste on the floor as no-one was aware they were ripe! | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Ellison’s Orange | An eater that turns up on apple days in numbers....it has been supplying Scotland with good eating apples for a long time. Tastes increasingly of aniseed...so best picked early. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Chivers Delight | An excellent east coast eating apple. Recommended by Willie Duncan in his Fife Orchard. Tastes and looks like a cox, late October. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Clydeside * | A local cooker, ready late September. Who knows how long this has been grown in the Clyde Valley before your modern Bramleys etc.? George Cave Very valuable early eater, I found some ripe in August last year. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Cutler Grieve * | Complete the duo....this is the rare sister to Scotland’s prime Edinburgh variety, James Grieve. Joan Morgan says cherry red, a hint of a strawberry flavour....mmm? | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Discovery | When the Discovery’s ripen in early autumn you can spot then in peoples gardens from a distance. They are a lovely soft red eater and very reliable here. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| East Lothian Pippin * | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | ||
| Egremont Russet | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | ||
| Galloway Pippin * | Described as a late cooker, can be sweet enough to eat. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Golden Pippin | Another distinctive conical, small and yellow apple I first tried in a Clyde Valley Orchard.... so unlike a commercial one, and so tasty. Would go in my piece bag any day. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Golden Noble | A good sweet cooker and a pollinator for late flowerers such as Court Pendu Plat. Described as ‘limped yellow’ by Taylor...curious? | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Hood’s Supreme * | A large handsome sweet cooker. An Angus apple. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Katy | How can a Worcester James Grieve cross not do well in Scotland! It forms a bright red small to medium crisp eating apples. The deep colour of one, with the softness of the other. Theres a lovely big tree at Falkland Palace Orchard. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Galloway Pippin * | A valued dual purpose late apple. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Golden Spire | A very distinctive umbrella shaped dwarf tree which is easily identified in many gardens – two of my neighbours have this tree. Makes a great tasting juice from its golden yellow conical fruit. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Hawthornden * | A very old variety, possible the forbear of many of the modern types.and the ‘Hawthornden Class of Holstein Much prized in Northern Europe….and we are European now! Like a large Cox. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Grenadier | A good Victorian cooker appearing frequently in our local orchards and prized in Europe also. A reliable and prolific ‘second early’ cooker for the west coast and wet areas. Well only second if you have an even earlier one! A few old trees survive in the Carse orchards. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Howgate Wonder | A large walled garden in West Lothian prizes this cooker. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| James Grieve * | My best apple by far. Very productive, one of the first to flower ( April 20th ), it is an early soft sweet eating apple. It is difficult to keep, though i have kept a tray full until xmas last year. It will never be a supermarket apple, but has been hybridised with many other varieties. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Keswick Codlin | A lovely codlin, makes good cider. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Lady Sudley | A strikingly beautiful apple which does well in Scotland. A sweet early eater. Use immediately. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Lady of Wemyss * | A very pretty apple in the orchard at Elcho Castle. A good rich taste when cooked according to Joan Morgan. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Lass O’ Gowrie * | Our local girl. Early, soft as in many of our local fruit | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Laxton’s Fortune | Well known, tough and tasty eater | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Laxton’s Superb | Mr Laxton and sons knew how to select a good eater. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Lord Rosebery * | A local apple named after a prime minister by David Storrie at his nursery around the turn of the last century at St Madoes, Perthshire. Attractive, sweet apple. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Melrose | Not ours but a commercial American variety much grown in Europe. I am open to new ideas, are you? Anyway I like the name of this juicy eater. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Monarch | A distinctive Essex cooker, my young tree producing a bucket load of large cookers in its second year. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Norfolk Royal Russet | Red. I mean very red. One to show off to your visitors. Easily spotted at Blair Castle Orchard in late summer. Sweet crisp rich sweet taste. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Port Allen Russet * | A medium to large red and rusetted dual purpose fruit. I enjoyed scrumping these while surveying Port Allen Orchard a few years ago, so perhaps a dual purpose. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Red Charles Ross | A distinctive heavy apple appearing at many apple days. Large, crisp, juicy, dual purpose and one of John Butterworth’s top ten. Have acquired a red form. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Red Millers Seedling | Some old trees survive in Strathnore, so it must have stamina. This is a red form of the creamy coloured, early, soft, apple. Savoury, crisp, yet melting and, very juicy. Only have a few this year. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Rev. W Wilkes | Wow, this tree buds up vigorously on mm106 rootstocks. Well known cooker. Large, pale yellow with red streaks, | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Scotch Bridget * | This cooker has a very disrtinctive oblong lopsided shape and a browny-red flush. Has been grown a long time here and in Northern England. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Scots Dumpling * | A local orchard owner has rated this highly as a cooker. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Seaton House * | A large, sharp cooking apple | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Spartan | This bright red eater was doing so well in a Carse Orchard in Perthshire, and the owner was so taken with it, that I resolved to produce a few trees! | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer | |
| Stobo Castle * | Like a flat Stirling Castle, deep golden with a scarlet flush (Taylor), cooks to a sharp creamy froth. | £13.50 bare-root Autumn/Winter £18.00 containerised Spring/Summer |
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