Lost Pear and Apple: can anyone help please

_{Thomas Andrew Knight, a Herefordshire squire, who raised the Croft Castle pear in the early nineteenth century}

Can anyone help with the hunt for two ‘lost’ cultivars – a pear called Croft Castle, listed in Hogg (1884), but elusive since then and an apple called ‘Northern Dumpling’, which originated in Gordon Castle gardens up in Morayshire and which they are keen to reintroduce.

Jo Miles

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