Tree Details | |
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Grid Ref | J8 |
Tree Type | Apple |
Variety | Ashmead's Kernel |
Rootstock | MM106 |
Date Planted | 15 March 2010 |
Tree Description | Pale green aromatic fruit with strong, sweet-sharp, intense flavour. Firm white flesh. Selected in a blindfold test as the best of all apples for flavour, surpassing Cox. A fairly large tree. A new year dessert apple. |
Comments | Suggested by RP & CS. Fruiting well elsewhere in St. James (RP & CS). |
Orchard Map |
There are two Little Owls' nests in the paddock. One of them is in a hollow pear-tree to the east; and the other is in a hollow apple-tree to the west. (Robert Lynd from Solomon in All His Glory)