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New apple orchard for Gloucestershire

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January 5, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is creating a new fruit orchard using 60 local variety apple, pear and plum trees at the Trust’s Vell Mill nature …
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Filed Under: Apples, News Tagged With: Apple Orchard, Chairmen, Cheltenham, Community Fundraiser, Fruit Orchard, Fruit Tree Varieties, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Jeffries, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Local Community, Mistletoe, Nature Reserve, Newent, Orchards, Pippin, Plum Trees, Ryder, Trickle, Vell, Woodpecker


Survey reveals apple identity crisis

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September 17, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment
Heritage varieties of apples collected in a wooden tray - Credit-NTPL / William-Shaw.

The National Trust has revealed that despite the UK being a nation of apple lovers, the majority of Britons cannot identify home grown …
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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Apple Blossom, Apple Calendar, Apple Lovers, Autumn, Bramley, Britons, Cox Orange, Crunch, Crunchy Texture, Director General, Eating Apple, Eating Apples, Fiona Reynolds, Food Campaign, Food Glorious Food, Good Juice, Granny Smith, Grown Apples, Heritage Varieties, Hot Spring, Local Flavours, National Trust, Nbsp, Orchards, Pink Lady, Pippin, Survey Showed That, Uk Www, Varieties Of Apples, William Shaw


Apple – Ellison’s Orange

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September 29, 2009 by admin 2 Comments
Ellison's Orange

The Ellison's Orange apple  was raised by the Reverend. C.C. Ellison at Bracebridge and Mr. Wipf, gardener at Hartsholme Hall in Lincolnshire, …
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Filed Under: Apples Tagged With: Acorn, Adams Apples, Aniseed, Bracebridge, Caption, Class Certificate, Ellison, First Class, Gardener, Juicy Flesh, Lincolnshire England, Natural Storage, Nurseries, Orchards, Pippin, Red Skin, Reverend, Rhs, Temple Sowerby, Wipf


Apple – Lancashire Pippin

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September 29, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment
Lancashire Pippin

The Lancashire Pippin was received by the national fruit trials in 1950, from Westmorland in Northern England. Fruits have soft, slightly …
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Filed Under: Apples Tagged With: Acorn, Apple, Caption, Cumbria, Flesh, Fruits, Lancashire, National Fruit, Natural Storage, Northern England, Orchards, Parents, Pippin, Temple Sowerby, Unknown Flowers, Westmorland


Apple Day in Cumbria 2009

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September 27, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment
Apple orchard, Acorn Bank, Penrith.

Counties all over the UK are preparing for their Apple Day events to be held throughout the month of October. Britain has the largest apple …
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Filed Under: Apples, Featured Tagged With: 28th September, Aonb, Apple, Apple Games, Apple Orchard, Apple Varieties, Arnside, Beetham Nurseries, Cockermouth, Cold Conditions, Cumbria, Guided Walks, Hilary Wilson, Keswick, penrith, Pippin, Recipe Cards, S Games, Silverdale, Sizergh Castle, Traditional Apple, Wordsworth


Apple – Red Ellison’s Orange

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September 27, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment
Red Ellison's Orange

The Red Ellison's Orange is a more highly coloured sport of Ellison"s Orange and was discovered in 1948 in H.C. Selby's orchard in Walpole St. peter, …
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Filed Under: Apples Tagged With: Acorn, Adams Apples, Aniseed, Apple Red, Cambridgeshire, Caption, cox, Eating Apple, Ellison, Juicy Flesh, Mid Season, Natural Storage, Orange, Orchard, Orchards, Pippin, Selby, Sport, St Peter, Temple Sowerby, Walpole, Wisbech


Apple – Charles Ross

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September 27, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment
Charles Ross

The Apple Charles Ross was raised by it's namesake, a gardener at Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire. First exhibited in 1890 as Thomas …
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Filed Under: Apples Tagged With: Acorn, Andrew Knight, Caption, Carstairs, Charles Ross, Class Certificate, Cumbria, Dual Purpose, Flavour, Gardener, Namesake, Natural Storage, Newbury Berkshire, Orchards, Park Gardens, Pippin, Royal Horticultural Society, Temple Sowerby, Thomas Andrew, Welford Park


Apple – Kidds Orange Red

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September 26, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment
Kidd's Orange Red

Kidd's Orange Red is a classic English apple. Named after an amateur New Zealand apple breeder, J.H. Kidd, in the 1920s. The thin skin is …
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Filed Under: Apples Tagged With: 1920s, Appearance, Caption, cox, Cream Colour, Cropper, Desert, English Apple, Flesh, Kidds, Light Patches, Natural Storage, Orange Flowers, Orange Red, Pink Blush, Pippin, Red Delicious, Red Flush, Sweet Honey, Thin Skin


Egremont Russet

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November 3, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment
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A recent visit to one of the local stores and we came across this apple with a local name. The Egremont Russet, according to the Orange Pippin …
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Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: apples, Flavour, Guardian, Guardian News, Guardian Uk, Local Stores, Lord Egremont, National Fruit Collection, Northern English Town, Online Directory, Orange, Pear, Petworth, Pippin, Rhs, Russet Apple, Sandpaper, Soft Flesh, Sussex, Sussex Uk, Uk News, Victorian Era


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