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St James Village Orchard

Details of the Tree at Grid Ref G1

Tree Details   
Grid Ref
G1
Tree Type Apple
Variety Worcester Pearmain
Rootstock MM106
Date Planted 15 March 2010
Tree Description Bright red flush, some faint red stripes, greenish yellow/pale yellow background. Densely sweet with intense strawberry flavour. A good fruit if allowed to ripen on the tree. A tipbearer. An early autumn dessert apple.
Comments Suggested by RP. RP remembers as a child eating these apples straight from the tree in the orchard at his family house.
Orchard Map
Among sweet dews and flowers; where any row of fruit-trees over-woody reach'd too far their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check fruitless embraces   (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V 213)