| Tree Details | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | D2 |
| Tree Type | Apple |
| Variety | Norfolk Beefing |
| Rootstock | MM106 |
| Date Planted | 15 March 2010 |
| Tree Description | Dark purplish red flush, red stripes over green. Used early in season for cooking, but by spring sweet enough to eat fresh. Will store until April. A dual purpose apple. |
| Comments | Suggested by MG. In MG's childhood garden in Norwich there was a large Biffin tree. The fruit made first-class bakers with rather a rich taste. Mention is made of Beefings in a fruit list from a note-book of 1698 belonging to the Walpole family of the Mannington and Wolterton estates in Norfolk. Biffins were the apples which were dried, whole and unpeeled, in warm bread ovens so that they shrivelled into a form like roundish red prunes. |
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O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves. (Dinah Maria Murlock Craik)