Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Some Hampshire Fruit

Dessert Apples
Beauty of Hants raised at Bassett, Southampton in the garden of Mrs Eyre Crabbe some time before 1850 from a Blenheim Orange. Benenden Early raised around 1945 by JJ Gibbons of Southampton, introduced by Stuart Low Ltd of Benenden in Kent. Easter Orange introduced by Hillier & Sons of Winchester in 1897. Jersey Beauty from Newport on the Isle of Wight before 1926. King George V. Sir John Thorneycroft raised by Mr Collister the Head Gardener to Sir John Thorneycroft at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, recorded in 1911. Steyne Seedling raised around 1893 at Steyne on the Isle of Wight, at Sir John Thorneycroft’s home, Bembridge.

Cooking Apples
Hambledon Deux Ans an old garden variety which hailed from Hambledon in the mid 18th century, said to keep for up to two years. Howgate Wonder is a fairly new variety raised in 1916 by Mr Wratton, Howgate Lane, of Bembridge, IOW.

Other Apples
Isle of Wight Pippin, James Saunders, Lady Thorneycroft, Lord Kitchener.

Plums
Angelina Burdett, Woolston Black.

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

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