In his article ‘Essential Pears and Apples’, on the main web-site, Adrian Baggaley rates Katy above Discovery as an early apple, but I think that this is under-rating Discovery, which in my experience is a splendid variety. Its fruits are a pretty pinky red and when really ripe the flesh becomes marbled with pink, [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Essential Apples?
Posted in Articles on March 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Horsiculture – a threat to old orchards?
Posted in Articles on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I note Howard Stringer’s reference to ‘horsiculture’ replacing orchards in Surrey. This has been a feature of the East Anglian landscape too.
Some orchard surveys were carried out in 2005/6 of several hundred orchard sites in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire that were mapped on the Millennium Edition OS Explorer maps. Both counties have shown conversion to pony [...]
English Cherry Production
Posted in Articles on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A recent article on the revolution in English cherry orchards published on our main web-site has prompted the following comments. To read the article see: http://www.fruitforum.net/english-cherry-production.htm
Flower of the Town Revisited
Posted in Articles on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Flower of the Town apple variety illustrated in my original piece clearly differs from that held in the National Collection at Brogdale and has given rise to some comment. If nothing else, it confirms the difficulty of authenticating varieties when only the name of the collector, in this case, Miss Holliday of Leeds, working [...]
