Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Some Shropshire Fruit

Tettenhall Dick

Dessert Apples
Brookes, recorded 1820. Moss’s Seedling raised in about 1955 by Chetwynd End nurseries in Newport. Onibury Pippin raised by Thomas Andrew Knight in early 19th century, Onibury being the location of one of his nurseries.

Dual Purpose Apples
King of the Pippins / Golden Winter Pearmain / Prince’s Pippin / Shropshire Pippin – debate over this apples origins. Known in Herefordshire as Prince’s Pippin and Shropshire as Shropshire Pippin, thought by some to be different varieties. Common in farm orchards in the area, for eating and cider making.

Other Apples
Bringewood Pippin, Lady’s Fingers, Prince’s Pippin, Springrove Codlin.

Perry Pears
'Tettenhall Dick' is the Black Country name for any perry pear.

Plums
Shropshire Prune.

This list was compiled using many sources including The New Book of Apples by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards (Ebury Press 2002).

For more details on Shropshire varieties contact the Marcher Apple Network who have produced the booklet ‘Apples of the Welsh Marches’. See their web-site.

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