Celebrating and remembering old fruit and vegetable varieties
We have had a request from a gentleman looking for pictures of and maybe ultimately suppliers of two varieties of apple from Berkshire:
“Guelph” a dessert apple from Newbury
“Frogmore prolific”, a cooking apple from Windsor.
Does anybody know if these varieties are still in cultivation?
The first record of the Edward VII apple was in 1902. Introduced by Rowe of Worcester in 1908.
The apple received the RHS Award of Merit in 1903.
Fruits have a firm, rather coarse texture, fairly juicy, with an acid flavour.
Reported to be an excellent cooking apple.
Uses: Culinary
Parents: Female -Blenheim Orange? x Male – Golden Noble?
Flowers: Mid to late May
Picking: Mid October
Natural Storage: December to April
The Edward VII apple can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.