| Tree Details | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | P1 |
| Tree Type | Apple |
| Variety | Ellison's Orange |
| Rootstock | MM106 |
| Date Planted | 29 March 2010 |
| Tree Description | Cox's Orange Pippin x Calville Blanc. Greenish yellow, flushed red, like a large Cox in appearance. Excellent cropper. Crisp and juicy if eaten off the tree, soft when fully ripe. Aniseed flavour develops after picking. Early autumn dessert apple. |
| Comments | Good in a fruit salad. Fruits well elsewhere in St. James (RP & CS). |
| Orchard Map | |
'a circling row of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue appeared, with gay enamel'd colors mixed... (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV 146)