Tree Details | |
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Grid Ref | E2 |
Tree Type | Apple |
Variety | Adam's Pearmain |
Rootstock | MM106 |
Date Planted | 15 March 2010 |
Tree Description | A small conical gold and yellow apple, of good quality sharp but sweet, adaptable and hardy, prolific when established though sometimes biennial. Upright growth. A new year dessert apple. Ripening in December or early January, keeping till February or early March. |
Comments | Suggested by RP. Popular in Victorian times. Probably from Norfolk or Herefordshire. Lawrence D. Hills' high Vitamin C group, 16.30Mg. Vitamin C per 100 grams. |
Orchard Map |
He struck me as looking like a pear on top of two toothpicks.
(Dean Gooderham Acheson, of Charles de Gaulle, 22 Oct 1980)