| Tree Details | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | R4 |
| Tree Type | Apple |
| Variety | Blenheim Orange |
| Rootstock | MM106 |
| Date Planted | 15 March 2010 |
| Tree Description | A large orange-yellow fruit, crisp, somewhat acid but distinctly flavoured. An old and much cultivated sort, rather long in cropping. A broad spreading tree. A midwinter dessert apple, ripening in November, keeping till January and February. Picked in October and stored until ripe. |
| Comments | Suggested by RP & CS. Fruiting well elsewhere in St. James (RP & CS). Traditionally an apple for Christmas. |
| 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)