Tree Details | |
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Grid Ref | H7 |
Tree Type | Apple |
Variety | Doctor Harvey |
Rootstock | M25 |
Date Planted | 23 January 2011 |
Tree Description | Medium fruit green-yellow in colour. A hardy tree and a good bearer. Ripens late September. |
Comments | Fruiting well elsewhere in St. James (RP & CS). For many years one grew in the hedge by the main Bungay to Norwich road near Kirstead (RP). Reputedly one of the oldest English apples. Grafted in situ. |
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)