Heritage Fruits Society

Baldwin: (Also known as: Woodpecker)
baldwin

Parentage / Origin: Chance seedling; Discovered Massachusetts, USA, 1740
Introduced c. 1780, named 1784, dessert/culinary/cider apple.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - Feb
Description: Medium to large, yellow base flushed with orange and striped red. Juicy with sweet to subacid flavor, aromatic and firm. Good cider base, and great for pies.
Tree Characteristics: Usually a productive and vigorous tree. Often a biennial bearer. Triploid
A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper.

Barry:
barry

Parentage / Origin: A 1957 Geneva, New York, USA. Selected 1936, used commercially 1957. Dessert apple.
Parentage: McIntosh x Cox Orange Pippin
Harvest / Season: Autumn
Description: Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
Tree Characteristics: Slow grower

Batman's Tree: An Australian apple named after John Batman, founding father of the city of Melbourne.

Batt's Seedling:
batts seedling

No information available

Baumann's Reinette
baumanns reinette

Sharp/sweet flavour but fairly bland, quite chewy - looks better than it tastes
Parentage: Unknown
Origin: Belgium
Introduced: 1811
Season: Early to mid summer

Beauty of Bath:
Parentage / Origin: Originated near Bath, England about 1864
Description: Dinstinctly flat well coloured mottled appearance. One of the earliest apples.

Bec d'Oie
A French variety. Size: large. Flesh: yellowish white, firm, juicy and tart. Skin smooth, pink to purple, darker streaks. Few diseases. Keeps well. Pollinated by Reinette du Mans.

Bedford Pippin Cross: No information available

Bedfordshire Foundling

Origin: Bedfordshire, England about 1800.
Description: Large angular culinary/dessert apple

Belle De Boskoop

Parentage / Origin: Bud sport of Rechette de Montfort; Holland, found c. 1856
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: November - April
Description: Excels as a longtime keeper, sweetens in storage. Large fruit, greenish-yellow flushed with brick red and a light russeting. Flesh aromatic, acid tart and crisp.
Tree Characteristics: Scab resistant, slow to bear but in maturity a good cropper. Triploid

Berner Rosen:

Also known as: Berne Rose.
Parentage / Origin: Origin in Switzerland, 1888
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early October
Description: The fruit is medium in size and often irregular in shape. Reddish-yellow in color with greenish-yellow dots. The flesh is yellowish white, sweet, juicy and tangy, with a subtle fragrance. Good keeper.
Tree Characteristics: The tree grows vigorously at first and later moderately. A very dependable annual heavy bearer.

Bess Pool:
A large attractive late sweet dessert apple.
Use: Dessert
Colour: Flushed
Description: Late keeping eating apple. Flesh rather dry with sweet pleasant flavor.
Origin: Nottinghamshire UK some records say 1750, others say 1824
Pollination Group: F
Self-fertility: Self-sterile
Tree Characteristics: Suitable to areas subjected to late frosts because it flowers later than many other varieties.

Blenheim Orange:

(Also known as: Blenheim, Rosy Blenheim, Woodstock Pippin)
Parentage / Origin: Blenheim/Woodstock, England, 1740

Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - January
Description: Large yellow fruits flushed red with fine russeting. Flesh firm, crisp and subacid, fine textured with characteristic nutty flavor.
Tree Characteristics: Susceptible to scab but mildew resistant with heavy rainfall. Slow to come into full bearing but a good cropper. Triploid
Dessert/culinary

Blue Pearmain

Parentage / Origin: Unknown origin, before 1833
Harvest / Season: Autumn
Dessert/culinary. Description: Predominately red with a blue bloom. Mild, sweet rich and mild acid flavor. Flesh firm, rather coarse, and aromatic. This keeper dries and shrivels in storage, yet retains good flavor.

Bonza syn. Batlow Bonza
bonza

Australia apple originating in Batlow south of Canberra in the 1950s. Fruit medium-large, mid-season, red and crisp and sweet. A good flavoured, good keeping large red apple that looks like a Jonathon.
Dual purpose apple, tip bearer diploid with good shelf life. Pollinators: Granny Smith, Abas.

Brabant Bellefleur (Syn. Glory of Flanders; Iron Apple)
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and three and a quarter high; roundish ovate, inclining to oblong or conical, ribbed on the sides, and narrowing towards the eye.
Skin, greenish yellow, changing to lemon yellow as it attains maturity, and striped with red next the sun. Eye, large and open, with long broad segments, set in a wide and angular basin. Stamens, marginal; tube, deep, conical. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep and wide cavity, which is lined with brown russet.
Flesh, yellowish white, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a sugary, aromatic, and pleasantly sub-acid flavour. Cells, closed, elliptical.
An excellent culinary apple of the finest quality; in use from November to April. The tree is hardy, and though not strong, is a healthy grower, attaining the middle size, and an excellent bearer.
This variety was forwarded to the gardens of the London Horticultural Society by Messrs. Booth, of Hamburgh.

Bramley's Seedling
bramleys seedling

Parentage / Origin: Propagated from a notable seedling; c. 1809 - 1813 Nottinghamshire, England

Harvest / Season: Autumn
Culinary apple.
Description: Fruit large, greenish-yellow with broad broken brown and red stripes. Flesh firm, juicy and sharply acid, high in vitamin C.
Tree Characteristics: Scab and mildew resistant. Tree large, vigorous and spreading, tolerates some shade. Heavy and regular bearer. Triploid

Breakwell's Seedling:
breakwells seedling

Origin From Perthyre, Monmouth, Wales. Propagated by George Breakwell.
Tree form Medium, semi-spreading tree with dark luxuriant foliage which is scab-resistant.
Pollination requirements Mid-season bloom; a good pollinator with Dabinett, Michelin, Brown Snout and Stoke Red.
Fruit shape Medium or small fruit, flat conical, often irregular.
Colour and flesh Skin with corona present around the eye, smooth waxy, yellow or yellowish-green base colour with dark red stripes or flecked blush over two-thirds of the surface.
Flesh white, occasionally reddish, soft, easily bruised, slightly astringent.
Harvest period Early, should be harvested promptly, good yield. Quickly breaks down and rots.
Uses Bittersharp; produces a thin, light, average cider.

Brittle Sweet: No information available

Brown's Apple: A traditional English cider variety, produces sharp juice.

Brown's Pippin:
browns pippin

English dessert apple 1863

Bulmer's Norman
bulmers norman

Parentage / Origin: France, imported to England in early 1900s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October
Description: Specificly a cider variety. Bittersweet flavor.
Tree Characteristics: Tree large and spreading. Triploid

Bushley Grove:
bushet grove

Sharp acidic culinary apple, very juicy. Parentage: Bismarck ? x Queen ?
Origin: England
Raised: 1897, first fruit 1910, Introduced c. 1926
Season: Early to late Autumn

Apple Varieties at Petty's Orchard 'B' (a work in progress)