October 2016
My visit to Moseley Old Hall included a wander in the orchard where their collection of historic fruit trees were carefully labelled.
Apples are a more diverse species than dogs, with different types cross pollinated and grafted by generations of gardeners to achieve fruit which are prefect for their uses. This diversity has resulted in literally hundreds of individually recognised species, all lovingly maintained in specialist orchards in the south of England.
Apples themselves come just a handful of strains in Asia, mostly in the Eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan area and than brought back by explorers and crossed with crab apples.
Its therefore impossible to catalogue all the apples we could encounter but I thought it would be interesting to record the more unusual ones I find and the following are to be found at Moseley Old Hall, near Wolverhampton:
Autumn Pomain
Court Pendu Plat
English Codlin
Golden Harvey
London Pippin
Non Pariel
Norfolk Biffen
Russet
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