Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Some Nottinghamshire Fruit

Dessert Apples
Bess Pool found as a seedling in a wood by a young girl, Bess Pool. She brought some fruit back home and they were admired so much that grafts were taken. Grown commercially by J R Pearson in Chilwell. First recorded in 1824. Skin milky mottled red and green. Fairly sweet and crisp. Good to eat at Christmas with cheese. Pickering’s Seedling probably from Notts, 19th century. Winter Quarrenden introduced by Pearson’s nurseries of Nottingham, recorded 1896.

Cooking Apples
Baron Ward raised by Samual Bradley at Elton Manor, Nottingham in 1850. Beauty of Stoke raised by Mr Doe, Head Gardener at Rufford Abbey, recorded in 1889. Bramley’s Seedling – most famous and popular cooking apple. Planted as a pip by Mary Ann Brailsford between 1809-13 in Church Street, Southwell. It still survives in the garden today. Cuttings were taken by Henry Merryweather in 1856 and sold commercially by him. Rich in vitamin C. Juicy, strong flavour. Bright green. Excellent for apple pies. Domino, grown around Southwell in the 19th century. Mead’s Broading from Pearson’s Nursery, Chilwell, described 1884.

Other Apples
Mrs Wilmot.

Plums
Bradley’s Damson, Merryweather Damson.

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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