Variety Details
Apple Type: Eating
Year the Variety was First Registered: 1873
Description or History of the Variety
Raised by John Standish, nursery man in Ascot, Berkshire. Bright scarlet flushed apple. Formerly grown commercially.
Four trees have been planted in the car-park area serving Byron’s Pools. These trees marked the very first trees to be planted in Autumn 2014 with the Mayor of Cambridge in attendance. Further trees will be planted in this location over the next few years.
A further five apple trees were planted in the picnic area at Byrons pools in Autumn 2016
Apple Type: Cooking & Eating
Year the Variety was First Registered: 1629
Propagated from the tree growing in Isaac Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham. The variety appears to be identical to Flower of Kent variety. The tree which Isaac Newton was believed to have sat under when he first contemplated the concept of gravity, died in 1814, but grafted for the current variety had been propagated in years previous to that.
Apple Type: Cooking
Year the Variety was First Registered: 1629
Propagated from a tree grown in Isaac Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham. Appears as identical to Flower of Kent, listed in 1629. Large ribbed fruit which cooks to a sweet puree.