Apples &
Orchards
Apple Varieties: |
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| CAPTAIN
BROAD: |
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| Bittersweet, once popular in Glant.
Very vigorous. Green with slight stripe and russet.
Grows on its own roots. |
| Origin: Golant, Nr Fowey |
| Type: Cider |
| Season: Mid Season |
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| CHACEWATER
LONGSTEM: |
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| A small yellow apple with a long stalk,
traditionally used for pickling. |
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| Origin: Chacewater, Truro |
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| Type: Pickling |
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| COOMBE ROUGH
COOKER: |
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| Origin: Coombe, Truro |
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| Type: Cooker |
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| CORNISH
LONGSTEM: |
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| "Acid" green with hard flesh
and a very long stem. Healthy, keeps until May / June. |
| Origin: Linkinhore |
| Type: Cooker |
| Season: Very Late |
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| CORNISH
PINE: |
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| Pleasant pineapple flavour and tender
flesh. Do not keep too long. Can suffer canker. May grow
on its own roots. |
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| Origin: Devon |
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| Type: Eater |
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| Season: Mid season |
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| KING BYERD: |
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| Green turning yellow with red flecks
and grey russet. Prolific cropper / good keeper. Slight
scab. Useful Christmas - Easter. |
| Origin: Cornwall |
| Type: Cooker / Eater |
| Season: Late / Very late |
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| LATE
VICTORIA: |
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| Origin: Coombe, Truro. |
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| LAURA
HONEYPIN: |
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| Origin: Cornwall |
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| Type: Eater |
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| Season: Mid season |
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| POLLY (Not
Polly Whitehair): |
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| Sweet / subacid. Yellow with traces of
russet. Not very vigorous. |
| Origin: Truro |
| Type: Eater |
| Season: 2nd early/Mid season
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| POLLY
WHITEHAIR (a pig's nose): |
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| Tall, conical, yellow apple with russet
dots. Sweet and insipid. The name reflects the mass of
white blossom. Said to be a very late keeper, may have
been a good keeper hen pickled. |
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| Origin: Truro |
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| Type: Cooker / Eater |
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| Season: Very Late |
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| QUEENIE:
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| The St. Dominic apple. Beautiful dark
red, flat apple with faint darker stripes and pale dots.
Skin is waxy with a bloom. Flesh stained red and sweet,
aromatic and fruity. Not ripe until it falls or just
before. Keep for a week or two. Similar to, or the same
as Devon Crimson Queen. |
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| Origin: Cornwall / Devon (St.
Dominic) |
| Type: Eater |
| Season: 2nd Early / Mid Season |
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| RACKY DOWN:
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| Origin: Cotehele |
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| SAWPIT:
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| Cornish apple, resistant to scab. Very
similar to Newton Wonder. Much russet on base and stem
cavity. Acid but quite sweet in a good year. |
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| Origin: Landrake |
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| Type: Cooker |
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| Season: Late / Very Late |
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