Edward’s Coronation: Also known as Coronation.

Raised by H C Princep at Buxted Park, Sussex and introduced by Pyne of Topsham, Devon.

First recorded in 1902 when it received an Award of Merit from the RHS (as ‘Edward’s Coronation’ in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII)

An attractive dual-purpose apple. Large sized, regular, round, slightly flattened fruit. Light green to yellow skin up to three-quarters flushed orange-red. Short, broken bright red stripes.

Fine russetting around the eye. Rather soft, coarse-textured, creamy flesh. Somewhat dry and sweet and slightly aromatic. Vigorous, upright-spreading tree. A part-tip bearer.

Edward VII:

English culinary apple, first recorded 1902, introduced 1908.

A mild flavoured late season cooking apple with very attractive blossom
Use:	Culinary
Season of Use:	Summer to early autumn
Colour:	Green
Flavour:	Acid
Origin:	Worcestershire UK 1902
Pollination Group:	F
Self-fertility:	Self-sterile

Egremont Russet:

Having a distinctive 'nutty' flavour that is both dry and sweet, Egremont Russet is the archetypal English russet apple.
Parentage: Unknown
Origin: England
Introduced: 1872
Ripening season: Autumn to early winter

A heritage apple dating from Victorian times. Some people disregard russet apples because of their 'furry' coats, however this fine coating is easily removed. Egremont Russet is worth trying, due to its unique, delicate and delicious flavour, which harmonises sweetness and tartness.

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Reviewers at Orange Pippin describe the colour as 'an attractive dull gold flecked with yellow.'

Texture: The flesh is dryish and soft, rather like the flesh of firm pears.

Size: medium

Ellisons Orange:

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Parentage: Cox's Orange Pippin and possibly one of the old French Calville varieties.

Origin: Lincolnshire, UK

Introduced: 1905

Ripening season: Mid season. Must be picked at the right time to ensure best flavour.

Flavour: Distinctly aniseed. A truly delicious apple whose rich flavour is brought out by aniseed overtones

Reviewers at Orancge Pippin say, "If you don't like aniseed do not let this put you off because you would be missing a unique taste experience. Straight from the tree the aniseed flavour is barely detectable, and Ellison's Orange has such a glorious richness of flavour that it is "essential reading" for anyone with an interest in apples. After a few days the aniseed is slightly more apparent - but merely as a liquorice undertone to a whole array of different fruit flavours."

Texture: Soft, pear-like flesh. Quite juicy.

Keeping qualities: short shelf life.

Ellisons Orange is easier for the home gardener to grow than Cox's Orange Pippin

Emneth Early, also knows as Early Victoria:

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Early cooker, ready in autumn. Very heavy cropper. Pollination group B

Emneth Early's fruit have the best cooking apple qualities of being tart, sweet and keeping all their flavour after they have been cooked. A radiant light green during growth, these apples usually turn a rustic pale yellow when ripe. After baking, they have the same divine nature as a Bramley: crumbling into a texture both airy and smooth that is full of sharp, fruity syrup and juice. Some say cookers this good are best eaten with raisins, sultanas and butter in the centre, straight from the oven. They are, however, also delicious in any meat or vegetable main course, usually as a puree or sliced if the dish is being grilled. Harvest in autumn.

History and Parentage:
Mr Lynn of Emneth, Cambridgeshire, crossed Lord Grosvenor and Keswick Codlin in the late 1890s, so the early crops would have been some of the 20th century's first new fruit.

Pollination: Emneth Early is a self-fertile tree but needs a suitable pollinator to produce a bumper harvest. Flowering in spring, the tree will be pollinated by any of the early or mid season trees.

Esopus Spitzenburg:

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This once-popular heritage American apple is said to have been Thomas Jefferson's favourite. Renowned for its spicy flavour, and for its low resistance to apple diseases.
Parentage: Unknown
Origin: New York, USA
Introduced: Early 1800s
Named after the place where it was found - the settlement of Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA.
Usage: both dessert and culinary
Flavour: Delicious. A superb eating apple - authentically aromatic with a rich tartness.
Flesh: a creamy, dense yellow.Growing: Spitzenberg needs high levels of sunshine and ripens quite late in the season.

From Robert Hogg, British Pomology:

Synonyms.Aesopus Spitzenberg, Hort. Soc. Cut. ed. 3, 790. ^sopus Spitzenburg,
Ken. Amer. Or. 40. True Spitzenburgh, ace. Down.

Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inches high ; ovate, and regularly formed. Skin, almost entirely covered with clear bright red, and marked with fawn-colored russety dots, except on a portion of the shaded side, where it is yellow tinged and streaked with red.
Eye, small and closed, set in a moderately deep and undulating basin. Stalk, slender, about an inch long, inserted in a wide, round, and deep cavity. Flesh, yellow, crisp, juicy, richly, and briskly flavored.
A most excellent dessert apple ; in use from November to February (northern hemisphere).
This is a native of the United States, and is there considered one of the best dessert apples. Along with the Newtown Pippin it ranks as one of the most productive and profitable orchard fruits, but like many, and indeed almost all the best American varieties, it does not attain to that degree of perfection in this country that it does in its native soil. The tree is tender and subject to canker, and the fruit lacks that high flavor, and peculiar richness which characterizes the imported specimens. It was raised at Esopus, on the Hudson, where it is still grown to a large extent.

Evelin: No information available

Fameuse:


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Fameuse or as it is commonly called, Snow Apple. It is a very old heritage variety known for its hardiness, good flavor and eating quality, and late summer, early fall ripening time. The old-timers made good use of it for apple cider because of its aromatic and distinct flavor, and because it is only a fair to good keeper. The flesh is tender and "snow white" like its name suggests. The fruit is red over a cream background color.

Fameuse is a very hardy variety, so should do well in cold climates. It can tend to be bi-ennial bearing if allowed to overcrop, so thin early to reduce the crop load. Fameuse hails from Quebec where it is thought to have been a seedling of McIntosh discovered and saved in the 1600's.

Bloom Character
• Mid-season blooming
• Pollinizer needed
• Thin heavily for size

Fruit Characteristics
• Medium size fruit

Growth Rate/Habit
• Spreading habit
• Average vigor

Harvest Period
• Mid-season
Other Attributes
• Short shelf-life
• Aromatic
• Complex flavor
• Sub-acid flavor

Site Requirements
• Full Sun
• Very hardy

Uses
• Juice or Cider
• High dessert quality
• Cooking or baking
• Good for sauce

Fenouillet Gris:

Other names: Anizier, Aromatique russet, Caraway russet, d'Anis ou Annis, d'Anny, du Ronduraut, Epice d'Hiver, Fenouillet, Fenouillet anisé, Fenouillet gris anisé, Fenouillet roux, Gorge de pigeon, Gros-Fenouillet Gros-Fenouillet d'Or, Petit-Fenouillet,

History
Like most Fenouillets it is a native of Anjou, apparently occurring in the sixteenth century. It was first called Spice Apple or Spice Red Fenouillet and finally Grey Fenouillet. (Fenouillet Gris)

Description of Fruit:
Shape: slightly dented, medium, short-stalked.
Rough skin painted and streaked with reddish gray with ash gray points on a dark yellow background.

Flesh: white, yellowed with exposure to air, rather soft, thin and crisp, moderately juicy, very sweet juice and soft, with a great musk-anise fragrance.

From Robert Hogg, British Pomology:
Synonyms.—Fenouillet, Knoop Pom. 52. t. ix. Fenellet, Lang. Pom. 134, t. Ixxv. f. 1. Fenouillet, d'Or Gros, ace. Hort. Soc. Cut. Gros Fenouillet ace. Calvet. Petit Fenouillet, Ibid. Porame d'Anis, ace. Merlet. Anis, Duh. Arb. Fruit. i. 287. George de Pigeon, ace. Knoop. 130. Graue Fenchelapfel, Diel Kernobst. iv. 117. Grauer Fenchelapfel. Anisapfel, Maii/er Fom. Franc, t. xxxii, f. 55. "Winter Auisreinette, Christ Handb. No. 1 1 6.

Fruit, small, about two inches and a quarter broad, and the same in height ; roundish-ovate, and broadest at the base. Skin, of a fine deep yellow color, like a Golden Pippin, but almost entirely covei-ed with russet, which is brown on the shaded side, and grey where exposed to the sun, mixed with a tinge of redish brown. Eye, small and open, set in a round, wide, and rather deep basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a rather shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, tender, crisp, rich, sugary, and aromatic, partaking much of the flav'or of Anise—hence the origin of one of the synonyms.
An excellent dessert apple, and when well ripened is considered of first-rate quality by those who are partial to its peculiar flavor. It is in season from December to March (northern hemisphere), and at an advanced period becomes woolly.
The tree is a small and slender grower ; but an abundant bearer. It requires a rich soil and warm situation, and succeeds well as a dwarf on the paradise stock.

Forfar Pippin
Scotland 1851, Pollinator D, dessert apple, ripens late in the season.
Distinct from the Forfar Apple of the Netherlands