Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Some Lincolnshire Fruit

Dessert Apples
Ellison’s Orange raised by the Revd C Ellison at Bracebridge, Lincoln and by Mr Wipf, gardener at Mr Ellison’s brother-in-law’s home at Hartsholme Hall in 1904, from a Cox’s Orange Pippin x Calville Blanc. Crisp and juicy. Good in salads and apple dumplings. Aniseed flavour when ripe. Herring’s Pippin, East of England Apples and Orchard Project suggests raised by Rev Charles Ellison at Bracebridge Manse near Lincoln 1908, Joan Morgan suggests Mr Herring of Lincoln, recorded 1908. Ingall’s Pippin raised by William Ingall of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs 1915. Ingall’s Red raised by William Ingall of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs 1930. Lord Burghley from by the Head Gardener Mr Matheson in waste ground in the garden of Marquis Exeter, Burghley, Stamford in about 1834.

Cooking Apples
Dewdney’s Seedling / Baron Wolseley raised by Mr Dewdney at Barrowby near Grantham 1850. Doctor Clifford, a seedling found by William Ingall, a nurserman of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs in about 1898. Grimoldby Golden attributed to William Ingall of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs around 1900. Isaac Newton’s Tree – one of our oldest varieties, descended from the tree, thought to be Flower of Kent, which grew in Isaac Newton’s garden at Woolsthorpe Manor near Colsterworth, Lincs in the 1660s and which reputedly gave Newton the idea of gravity. Also known as The Gravity Tree. Fruit ‘distinctly ugly’. Pale greenish-yellow, flushed and striped with orange and red. Cooks to a puree. School Master, thought to be a seedling of a Canadian apple in the garden of Stamford Old Grammar School around 1855, but also suggested that it may be from Herefordshire. Sleeping Beauty probably from originates in Lincolnshire in the 1850s, grown for Boston markets. Uland raised by William Ingall of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs 1922.

Dual Purpose Apples
Allington Pippin raised before 1884 by Thomas Laxton. Peasgood’s Nonsuch, ‘One of the largest and most handsome of all apples’. Raised in the 1850s in Grantham by Mrs Peasgood from a pip of a Catshead Codlin. Pale yellowish-green skin overlaid with orange and bright red stripes. Large apple, sweet, juicy and tender. Good for baking and dumplings. Allington Pippin / South Lincoln Beauty raised by Thomas Laxton at Stamford 1884. Brown’s Seedling raised at Brown’s Nurseries at Stamford 1874. Holland Pippin / Kirton Pippin, suggested by Joan Morgan to be from Holland, Lincs 1729, while East of England Apples and Orchard Project suggest from Kirton near Boston. Philadelphia from Alford near Sleaford around 1840.

Other Apples
Hunthouse Pippin, rediscovered by the East of England Apples and Orchard Project during their ongoing Big Orchard Survey which began in 2004.

Plums
Ingall’s Grimoldby Greengage, a seedling of Green Gage raised by William Ingall of Grimoldby near Louth, Lincs, around 1900.

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

For more information and a list of ‘lost’ varieties of eastern England contact the East of England Apples and Orchards Project on +44(0)1328 838403 or see their web-site.

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