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Price Differential in Apples or How the...
Humans have long ago worked out how to produce apples very efficiently. So much so that we can produce as many apples per hectare as potatoes – and we reached that curious point where you can buy apples even cheaper than potatoes.... Orchardists are leaving the industry in large numbers and the agricultural department keeps telling th
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Apple Cross Pollination
From the amount of inquiries I receive about cross pollination I’m convinced that this is a very misunderstood part of apple culture. Apples have a very large and rich genetic background just as we humans have, and this has enabled them to adapt to and be grown in just about all climate zones
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$39.50 In StockHubbardston's Nonesuch Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A large and densely fleshed apple with a rich sweet aromatic flavour. The skin is often bumpy and a little russetted - yellowish overlaid with red and pink. It is an all-rounder: an apple for eating fresh, cooking and making cider. This apple feels quite weighty in the hand. An American Apple from Massachsetts in the 1830's. The American apples of the...
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$39.50 In StockPomme De Neige Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Also known as Snow apple, Lady in the Snow, Fameuse, Chimney Apple and about 20 other names which reflects its popularity and how widely distributed this variety is. Originated around 1730 in Quebec, Canada an offspring of McIntosh. The attractive smallish fruit have red sometimes striped skin on a background of pale red and green. The flesh is very white
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$42.50 In StockMagnus Summer Surprise Step-Over Ripens: February - March
The fruit are quite attractive - bright red and medium in size, but that is the red flesh and white core are quite remarkable when bitten into. The flavour is sweet and the tree crops heavily. Like its parent, the Huonville Crab, it has purple/ green leaves and stem. Quite remarkable. This apple is the result of my fathers' efforts into apple breeding....
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$42.50 In StockPomme de Neige Step-Over Ripens: March - April
Also known as Snow apple, Lady in the Snow, Fameuse, Chimney Apple and about 20 other names which reflects its popularity and how widely distributed this variety is. Originated around 1730 in Quebec, Canada an offspring of McIntosh. The attractive smallish fruit have red sometimes striped skin on a background of pale red and green.
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$39.50 In StockLodi Dwarfing Ripens: January
Lodi is one of the early apples, a medium sized apple light green to greeny-yellow when ripe. Like all early apples, they just dont keep, but their sprightly flavour signifies the beginning of the apple season, and make them worth growing. Thought to be an offspring of white transparent (and Montgomery), and has probably superior in both flavour and shelf...
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$39.50 In StockMagnus Summer Surprise Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
The fruit are quite attractive - bright red and medium in size, but that is the red flesh and white core are quite remarkable when bitten into. The flavour is sweet and the tree crops heavily. Like its parent, the Huonville Crab, it has purple/ green leaves and stem. Quite remarkable. This apple is the result of my fathers' efforts into apple breeding....
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$39.50 In StockMagnus Summer Surprise Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
The fruit are quite attractive - bright red and medium in size, but that is the red flesh and white core are quite remarkable when bitten into. The flavour is sweet and the tree crops heavily. Like its parent, the Huonville Crab, it has purple/ green leaves and stem. Quite remarkable. This apple is the result of my fathers' efforts into apple breeding....
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$39.50 In StockMcintosh Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
One of the world's most famous apples originating around 1800 in Ontario, Canada. It's a bright red apple, roundish shaped that fits gently into the hand, with a bit of stripe or fleck in the colouring. It has sweet scented white flesh, occasionally with pink streaks. It at least partially self fertile and a good provider of pollen. Probably America's...
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What are dwarfing fruit trees? How to make...
The Greek historian Theophrastus writing in about 350 BC recorded that Alexander the great sent home to Greece from Asia minor plant material of the 'Spring apple', a dwarf, self rooting form of malus. This message from almost 2500 years ago is the first reference to what became known as the paradise apple. From the many subsequent
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$13.00 Out of stockApple Rootstocks (Dwarfing M26)
A dwarfing rootstock for growing and propagating apples and crabapples onto. These have been grown on for one year after harvesting from a stoolbed, so have established root systems.
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$13.00 In StockApple Rootstocks (Semi-Dwarfing M111)
A semi-dwarfing rootstock for growing and propagating apples and crabapple. These have been grown on for one year after harvesting from a stoolbed, so have established root systems.
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$13.00 In StockApple Rootstocks (Extra Dwarfing M27)
An extra-dwarfing rootstock for growing and propagating apples and crabapples onto. Suitable for stepovers. These have been grown on for one year after harvesting from a stoolbed, so have established root systems.
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$39.50 In StockDiscovery Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
An early apple popular in the UK. Found in Essex in the 1940's it's a seedling of Worcester Pearmain. Like other early apples, the flavour is light and an on the acid side, but crisp and juicy. An attractive round shape if a little squat. It develops a bright red cheek over a light greenish yellow background. Well worth considering as an early eating apple.
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$39.50 In StockSweetman Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
This is medium to large sized apple, with a greenish yellow skin when ripe. It's a reliably heavy cropper of very high quality sweet apples with a distinctive honey flavour. Quite unique and memorable. Unfortunately there is no reference anywhere to this apple in the literature,
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$39.50 In StockTydeman's Early Worcester Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
This is the child of one of England's most famous apples, the Worcester Pearmain. An early apple ripening about the same time as Gravenstein. Quite conical in shape, it is bright purplish red on the sunny side. The flesh is aromatic, very fragrant and both sweet and subacid. It's one of the richest flavoured early apples.
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$39.50 In StockGeeveston Fanny Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A small attractive bright reddish purple apple with white sweet flesh. Ideal for lunchboxes. Heavy and regular bearer. This variety was popular as a commercial apple during the 1970's in Tasmania. The story goes like this: about 1870 Mr Hawkins, the storekeeper at Shipwrights Point near Huonville imported 6 apple trees of unknown variety and sold them to...
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$39.50 In StockRed Cleopatra Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
This attractive medium sized red apple has consistently delighted by those who try them at our apple tastings. Extremely crunchy, with flesh that almost splits when bitten. A fresh sweetf lavour. Red Cleo is little known in the literature. We had thought that is was a red form of New York Pippin: a yellow/green apple once grown commercially but we have...
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$39.50 In StockHuonville Crab Dwarfing Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when polished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetness offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily. We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge...
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$39.50 In StockLady Williams Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
This is a true Australian Federation apple believed to be the daughter of Rokewood and Granny Smith both of which are famous old Australian varieties. It is a large apple, maturing July or even later and keeps extremely well. Brilliant red purple skin, longish conical fruit with excellent flavour. Tree very vigorous and upright. This variety originated in...
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$39.50 In StockDuke Of Clarence Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Once widely grown apple in the Tasmanian apple industry in the 1950's but there is little mention of this variety in the literature. An dark burgundy skin over green when ripe, these medium sized beauties polish to a high gloss. Pale to cream flesh, has an outstanding sweet flavour. So good that we thought it worth re-introducing this apple again.
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$39.50 In StockHuonville Crab Semi-dwarfing Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily.We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge old...
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$42.50 In StockHuonville Crab Step-Over Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily. We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge...
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Pruning - why we do it
Recently I had a Croatian chap ring me for some advice. He’d bought a Cox’s Orange and a Pine Golden Pippin from me a few years ago. They just had their first decent crop and he wanted to know what 'to do' with them now. I figured out that 'to do' was how to prune them and as our conversation continued I had to think of the whole
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Step-over Apples
What are step-overs? It’s not a very gracious name for an extremely dwarf apple plant that is grown typically as a fruitful hedge or border to an ornamental vegetable garden, a potager garden. Their success is totally dependant on growing them on an extremely dwarfing rootstock. If this tree is left to grow to it’s full size it may
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$39.50 In StockFenouillet Gris Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
This is the most unusual apple we grow - it's as far from the supermarket stereotype as you can get. Originating in France as far back in the 1600's, a small reddish orange blocky apple almost totally russetted. The flesh is deep yellow and has a distinctly delicious anise flavour. No apple collection is complete without this one.
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$39.50 In StockBaldwin Dwarfing Ripens: April - May
A large handsome red apple with yellow flesh – crisp, crunchy, juicy with a hint of spice. Originating as a seedling from Massachusetts around 1750’s, it rose temporarily to commercial success in the early 1900’s in the USA. This apple always attracts keen interest at our apple tastings.
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$42.50 In StockMcintosh Step-Over Ripens: March - April
One of the world's most famous apples originating around 1800 in Ontario, Canada. It's a bright red apple, roundish shaped that fits gently into the hand, with a bit of stripe or fleck in the colouring. It has sweet scented white flesh, occasionally with pink streaks. It at least partially self fertile and a good provider of pollen.
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$39.50 In StockElstar Dwarfing Ripens: March
A very attractive almost perfectly round apple, mostly red, with an occasional stripe but a destinctive collar of russeted yellow around the stem. Very good eating apple with good flavour and crunch. Originated in the Netherlands, in the town of Elst in the 1950's. It's a Golden Delicious crossed with on otherwise hardly known apple called Ingrid Marie.
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$39.50 In StockRed Delicious (Hi Early) Dwarfing Ripens: March
A very famous apple - a classic red apple with a distinctive shape. Red, with a yellow stripe, with a mild sweet flavour, and firm flesh. Discovered as a chance seedling in Iowa 1880 where it was called Hawkeye, and later sold to Starks Brothers who renamed it Delicious. It has enjoyed huge success as a commercial apple, up to as recently as 10-20 years...
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$39.50 In StockGravenstein Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
An excellent early apple, grown commercially widely across the world, and still available in many parts of Australia in local markets. Good sized fruit, when ripe the Gravenstein is red and green, with a orange-yellow stripe and ultra crisp. Sweet juicy crunchy flesh, it's distinct flavour signals the beginning of the apple season in earnest. Polishes...
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$39.50 In StockSturmer Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Feedback from our customers rates Sturmer as one of the most satisfying apples to grow. It's extremely late, very acid, and is really a great all rounder - eaten fresh, cooked, juiced or made into cider. By modern standards it's no beauty; with orange/yellow russeted skin, a dense yellowish flesh, and medium in size. It's a very heavy cropper and stores...
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$39.50 In StockPineapple Ripens: March - April
Developed by Luther Burbank in California USA in about 1900. It has a slight pineapple flavour, bears prolifically and has a nice pear shaped with short, stumpy neck and bears medium to late. Cooks to pale pink.
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Rabbits and Apple Trees
It seems rabbits (and sometimes hares) have a definite taste for apple trees - often particularly newly planted ones during winter. We’re regularly receiving calls from people (gardeners) who have gone out one morning to find their trees stripped of bark up to a height of 30cm (rabbit height) - so watch out! The best way to avoid this
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Woolly Aphid and Rootstocks
We have had enquiries lately about rootstocks resistant to woolly aphid and this article is in response to those enquiries. Woolly aphid is a very destructive insect pest that almost wiped out the apple industry here in Tasmania and in South Africa in the early 1900’s. Before the time of modern pesticides, orchardists were forced to use poisons based on...
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$42.50 In StockLady Williams Step-Over Ripens: June - July
This is a true Australian Federation apple believed to be the daughter of Rokewood and Granny Smith both of which are famous old Australian varieties. It is a large apple, maturing July or even later and keeps extremely well. Brilliant red purple skin, longish conical fruit with excellent flavour.
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$39.50 In StockSturmer Semi-dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Feedback from our customers rates Sturmer as one of the most satisfying apples to grow. It's extremely late, very acid, and is really a great all rounder - eaten fresh, cooked, juiced or made into cider. By modern standards it's no beauty; with orange/yellow russeted skin, a dense yellowish flesh, and medium in size. It's a very heavy cropper and stores...
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$39.50 In StockAppleshaped Ripens: March - April
A heavily bearing with fruit curiously the shape of an apple. The tree is vigorous, spreading, small leaved and productive. Possibly from USA.
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$39.50 In StockRattling Cox's Orange Pippin Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This must be the world's most revered apple, originating in Buckinghamshire England in 1825, thought to be an offspring of Ribston Pippin. There are many different cultivars of this apple, and this one is one of the oldest - very tasty but smaller fruit with russeted yellow/orange skin. Crisp juicy flesh when ripe, with a richness that is difficult to...
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The story of Magnus Summer Surprise
If nobody has any idea about cross pollination and the sexual habits of our fruit trees, just about everyone has an opinion - even people who’ve never got their hands dirty - about how to prune them. Now pruning is the process whereby we shape and train a young tree and prepare it for a life of producing fruit for us. Pruning is
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$39.50 In StockBeauty Of Bath Dwarfing Ripens: January
A very popular old apple from the southwest of England during the 19th century. It's one of the earliest apples - maturing in most parts of Australia around Christmas. Small in size, its skin is an attractive red flush / stripe over yellow. The flesh is creamy white with a fairly sharp but sweet flavour and quite aromatic.
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$39.50 In StockAkané Dwarfing Ripens: January
Some consider this the best early commercial apple. It is actually a cross between Worcester Pearmain and Jonathan. It's deep red in colour with a few stripes, uncomplicated sweet flavour, is very crisp and stores / transports well for an early apple. Ripens late January.
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$39.50 In StockWorcester Pearmain Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
Once a very important early variety in the UK. A very attractive brilliant red apple with very white sweet perfumed uncomplicated flavour. Worcester Pearmain, like Gravenstein were often picked too early to try and get better prices and so got a bad reputation. English Worcester, as it was called, originated in Worcester in 1874 probably the progeny of...
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$39.50 In StockAlexander Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
Brilliant orange and red colour on the sunny side, this large apple is both a good eating and good cooking apple. First appeared in Ukraine in the 1700's and quickly spread through Europe, valued because of its hardiness and heavy regular bearing.
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$39.50 In StockJames Grieve Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
Originated in Scotland in 1890, thought to be a seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin and the parent of Lord Lambourne. A particularly beautiful apple, with red stripes overlying a skin of yellow/green. The flesh is tender and melting, very juicy with just that perfect sweet/acid balance like a good mango, mandarin or pineapple. Very memorable.
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$39.50 In StockSummer Strawberry Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
Just like a strawberry, this apple is vibrant red in colour, with small dots on the skin. Tender, sweet white flesh without too much acid and an occasional pink flush. Characteristic blocky shape, small in size. Great eaten fresh, and rated very highly at our apple tasting. Dating back to the 1800's in South Australia.
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$39.50 In StockAndre Sauvage Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Of unknown origin, assumedly French, but often considered incorrectly named. This apple definitely has French character. It is largish in size and blocky oblong in shape with a fine russet skin and greenish crisp tart yet sweet aromatic flesh. It's an apple of very high quality. Ripens mid-season to late in April.
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$39.50 In StockBlenheim Orange Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
One of the most famous English apples, originating around 1740 near Blenheim Castle, Oxford, England. Rather large in size with orangey yellow skin streaked with red. The flesh is coarse and yellow, but rich and aromatic in flavour. This is a true dual purpose apple - great eaten fresh or cooked (goes fluffy). Ripens early March.
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$39.50 In StockBonza Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A seedling of Jonathan from Batlow NSW discovered in the 1920's by Ben Atkinson, Bonza is a favourite Australian apple. It's a medium sized, highly flavoured, red apple that ripens mid season. It has a conical shapeand when ripe hangs on the tree in very good condition for over a month. It also stores well. Suitable for low-chill conditions.
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