English Apples

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Pictures
Vitamin ...C ...content
Origin of ...the Domestic Apple
Looking after ..........a young fruit tree...
Where English apple varieties got their Names
Dealing with a glut of apples ........... cidermaking
British Apples............ a call for less diversity, 1829
Unusual apples .......... varieties from Leicestershire
Ancient crafts...Rural Cidermaking in the 1800s.
You have a tree from a pip? What to do with it....
A very common Victorian Object Lesson
Fruit trees...... why ants are useful
Domestic varieties,1829
Wild Apples
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click on the stalk for: planting a tree, tree problems, favourite varieties....

Trials and tribulations of a fruit and nut grower
BBC Radio 4:Gardeners' Question Time (GQT)
GROW IT magazine: .... information... website...

More articles:

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Wines .
Versailles:le Potager du Roi
English types .. some Cider Varieties .
Pomologists ... can you identify this variety? .
The problem of Biennial Bearing in Fruit Trees .
Fruit at Brogdale ......the National Fruit Collection .
Pollination in Domestic varieties: Crane & Lawrence .
English apples absent from National Fruit Collection .
British Library ...................... The Tree of Knowledge
Measuring the Vitamin C level in different varieties .
Vitamin C levels in English Apples.......... results .
More on Vitamin C in stored English Apples .
Pollination..... in a commercial orchard .
Triploids, diploids and bad pollen .
Storing late varieties .
News

Click on the stalk for toasted apples and grafting...




MORE ARTICLES:
Rootstocks .
Apple Chimeras .
Scions and Grafting .
Repotting a fruit tree .
More Apple Chimeras .
Cider versus wine, 1829 .
Dealing with woolly aphis .
Apples from the Isle of Wight .
Picking fresh apples in December .
Propagating Rootstocks in containers .
Propagating Rootstocks in the ground .
New Swiss Redfleshed Apple released .
Croft Cider? - evaluating a cider variety .
Tale of the Big Red Apple - Daphne Ledward
Cultivation according to Mrs.Beeton (c1860) .
2006 - a good year for Bramleys - and others .
Pick Fresh apples on New Year's Day .
Should I buy a Family Apple Tree? .
Winter fruit - pictures .
Croft Collection .
Blossom .

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Top Secret Information: Did you know you can cheat on your Medifast diet without feeling guilty about it? You can: just have an apple! Nutritious, satisfying, chock full of vitamins and minerals, it's hard to go wrong with a good apple. Fresh fruit is a great way to combat feeling hungry when you're on a diet. Plus, as they always say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away!

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NATIONAL FRUIT COLLECTION
Brogdale, just outside Faversham in Kent, is home to the National Fruit Collections, the largest collection of fruit trees in the world. 1,800 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum, 220 of cherry, 320 varieties of bush fruit, and smaller collections of nuts and vines, grown in 150 acres of beautiful orchards.
http://www.brogdale.org/

NATIONAL ORCHARD FORUM
The National Orchard Forum is a voluntary umbrella organization which represents the 20-30 heritage orchard groups, exchanging information and raising awareness of national orchard issues. It helps to set up orchard groups in parts of the UK where none exist.
http://www.nat-orchard-forum.org.uk/

ORCHARDS: FRUIT & NUT BLOG
Pictures and comments by a Midlands fruit and nut grower as he visits orchards around the UK.
http://www.gb-online.co.uk/gb-wordpress/

SUPPLIERS OF APPLE TREES
Deacon's Nursery, Godshill, I.O.W - they stock a staggering 300+ UK varieties. Their website is at
www.deaconsnurseryfruits.co.uk .

BACKYARD FRUIT GROWERS, PENNSYLVANIA
The informal association of Backyard Fruit Growers, formed in 1990, is an organization for amateurs and others in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who wish to produce excellent fruit for the family, and to respect the backyard environment. Website: www.sas.upenn.edu/~dailey/byfg.html

TIMBER TREES
The properties of timber from a large variety of trees, including trees not normally grown for their timber, are given on the Habitat21 site, www.habitat21.co.uk, on the "Sustainability" page.

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Shaping a Tree ...... Making a Goblet Tree...... Amazingly late English Apples .

Drying Apples
Croft Cider Apple
Problems grafting the Witney Pear
Apple-related news .
Importance of the threatened Fruit Collection .
www.fruitforum.net: Joan Morgan's site
Identifying Apples .

Brocks Hill Country Park, Oadby: Apple Day, Sunday 13 Oct 2013. .
Brocks Hill Country Park, Oadby: Apple Day, Sunday 10 Oct 2010. .
Brocks Hill Country Park, Oadby: Apple Day, Sunday 11 Oct 2009. .
Groundworks Leicester & Leicestershire, Groby Rd. Reserve, Apple Planting, 25 Jan 2009 .
Perry Court : Annual Apple Fayre, Bilting, Ashford, 20-21 Oct 2007 .
Groundworks Leicester & Leicestershire, Groby Rd. Nature Reserve, 14 Oct 2007 .

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