summary: Sweet and slightly tart with considerable flavour when eaten fresh but also popular for pies and sauce. It retains its shape when cooked.

characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, firm. Sprightly.

summary: A weeping tree found growing in Britain during the mid-1900s. Still obtainable from select nurseries in Britain dealing in heritage varieties.

summary: This sweet-tart cooking apple from Britain is among the earliest ripening cultivars. However, it is often confused with an American early-season cooking apple.

characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp, fine-grained. Very juicy, sweet-tart and spicy with a nutty flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Sweet with a slight sharpness.

characteristics: The flesh is pale green, juicy, sweet-tart. Somewhat flat.

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, crisp. Juicy, sweet, faintly tart and nutty.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm and brisk.

summary: See Graham

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy spicy, and sweet. Mildly aromatic.

characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, somewhat grainy and firm. A crisp, juicy, sweet and sprightly apple which has considerable flavour typical of Cox's Orange Pippin when ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet-sharp when first harvested but mellows in storage.

origins: Niedzwetzkyana x sieboldii

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, coarse-grained and crisp. Sweet and brisk. Keeps four months in cold storage.

summary: Please see Yellow Bellflower

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained and soft. Moderately sharp but mellows to a sweet, tender apple after about six weeks in storage.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained, soft and melting. Juicy and very sweet.

summary: A heritage British cooking apple, frequently used for making juice. Also makes wonderful apple pies. Too tart for eating out of hand unless held in storage for ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, soft, juicy and sweet-sharp.

summary: Please see Haralred

summary: This apple from the Normandy region of France is more often used for making cider than intended since a labelling mix-up during the 1900s resulted in it ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and coarse-grained. Dry and sharp, lightly aromatic. Some people say it has a prominent aroma of freshly cut lemons, others ...

summary: Native to southern Italy, this heritage apple has been harvested since Roman times. It makes a unique variety for the patio or balcony.

characteristics: The flesh is white and sprightly.

summary: Once a highly prized cooking apple grown in southeastern England, great for sauce and pies. Still grown in its native range, but limited.

characteristics: White flesh, somewhat coarse-grained and soft. Juicy, slightly tart and sweet. Hints of lime and vanilla.

characteristics: Very tart when the skin is green, but softening and becoming slightly sweeter when the skin starts to yellow. However, in many climates the Lord Derby does not ...

characteristics: The flesh is greenish. Coarse-grained. tender Moderately juicy.

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, soft, fine grained. Very juicy and sweet-tart, spicy and aromatic.