Sonairte's Apple Collection

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Apples are also part of our heritage.

Irish Peach is our earliest ripening apple, in a good year by the third week of August. Originating possibly in Sligo from the 1800s. It was introduced to England in 1820 and is still grown there. Fruits have white, moderately firm, juicy flesh with a good aromatic flavour.

Other varieties in our collection include:-

• Early Victoria
• Lady Sudeley
• Grenadier
• Sheep's Nose
• Bramley Seedling
• Newton Wonder
• Queen
• Edward VII
• Keswick Codlin
• Gladstone
• Beauty of Bath
• Lane's Prince Albert
• Charles Ross
• Bismarck
• Ecklinville Seedling
• Allinton Pippin
• Clearheart
• Golden Spire
• Rival
• Mere de Menage
• Winter Quarrenden
• Ribston Pippin
• King of the Pippins
• American Mother
• Kidd's Orange
• Irish Peach
• James Grieve

See the Brogdale Horticultural Trust for more information on heritage fruit.