Tree Details | |
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Grid Ref | N5 |
Tree Type | Apple |
Variety | Beauty of Bath |
Rootstock | MM106 |
Date Planted | 15 March 2010 |
Tree Description | Very early, rather small, mottled orange and scarlet on yellow, pleasantly sharp but sweet and juicy. A late summer dessert apple, ready in August. Best eaten straight off the tree. |
Comments | Suggested by RP. RP has childhood memories of a Beauty of Bath tree in his grandmother's Norfolk orchard chicken run. To pick fruit meant facing a rather vicious cock, who lorded it over the whole orchard. |
Orchard Map |
I am withered like an old apple-john. (William Shakespeare)