Beurre Bosc Pear A seedling pear found by Dr Van Mons, growing in the garden of M. Swates at Linkebeeke, France. It was named after M. Bosc, the Director of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. Fruits have yellowish, tender, juicy flesh with a perfumed flavour. A...
Beurre Bosc Pear (semi-dwarf) A seedling pear found by Dr Van Mons, growing in the garden of M. Swates at Linkebeeke, France. It was named after M. Bosc, the Director of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. Fruits have yellowish, tender, juicy flesh with a perfumed flavour. A...
Beurre Diel Pear (semi-dwarf) A chance seedling found in 1805, by M. Meuris the head gardener for Dr. Van Mons at the Chateau of Perck near Vilvoorde. Van Mons named it in honour of his friend Dr. Augustus Frederick Adrien Diel, a distinguished German pomologist. Lemon-yellow, rough,...
Beurre Easter Pear (semi-dwarf) Seems to have originated in the gardens of the Capucin Monastery at Louvain, Belgium, where there was recorded, about 1823, an old pear tree known to the monks as the Pastorale de Louvain. As the variety attracted attention it became widely...
Beurre Hardy Pear (semi-dwarf) A French pear raised in about 1820 by M. Bonnet, Boulonge-sur-Mer, France. Acquired by M. Jean-Laurent Jamin, a nurseryman near Paris, who named it in honour of M. Hardy Director and Professor of Arboriculture at the Garden of Luxembourg. It was...
Beurre Superfin Pear (semi-dwarf) Raised in 1837 by M. Goubalt, Angers, France. First fruited in 1844. Introduced to america about 1850. Fruits have yellowish white, very melting, sweet flesh with a delicious perfumed flavour. Pollination Group: Buerre Bosc, Williams, Comice,...
Bing Cherry Bing is the most famous sweet cherry variety in the USA. It originated in Oregon in the United States in 1875 on an orchard planted in Western Oregon by Henderson Lewelling in 1847. It takes its name from one of Lewelling's Chinese...
Black Amber Japanese Plum Prunus salicina 'Black Amber' Japanese Plum - One of the best Japanese plums. Bred by J.H.Weinerberger from Fresno, California (USA), in 1980. It is a midseason, heavy bearing plum producing medium to large, round or slightly flattened fruit of dark...
Black Diamond European Plum One of the earliest plums. Not to be confused with the variety of the same name expressed as a ®egistered trademark. The Black Diamond plums we sell are an old variety with dark coloured skin and flesh. We are not sure if they have, as...
Black English Mulberry Morus nigra 'Black English'Has dense, dark green foliage. Red/black fruit ripens progressively rather than all at once. Once established will tolerate a Meditteranean climate. Slower growing at first and can grow to a large tree. Pollination:...
Black Genoa Fig Black Genoa is the leading commercial variety for fresh fruit production. The tree has an open and spreading habit. The fruit is dark purple at maturity, with red seeds and white flesh. It is a squat, pear-shaped fruit. It has a distinctive flavour and...
Blackboy Cherry Very dark coloured skin and flesh, medium fruit ripens in mid December. High chill required. Pollination Group: cross with Stella, Van Uses: eating Harvest: mid-December
Blackboy Peach (dwarf) The dwarf peach ‘Blackboy’ is a late maturing freestone peach with purple/red flesh and skin. It’s melting texture, distinctive flavour and striking colour makes it attractive as an eating peach that can also be bottled, cooked and...
Blenheim Orange Apple (dwarf) Discovered by Mr Kempster at Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England in about 1740. Distributed in about 1818. It received the Banksian medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1822. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured and...
Bonza Apple (dwarf) Bonza was a chance seedling found in Batlow and introduced in the 1950s. The Bonza variety has a green/cream background colour under a red blush. The variety is characterised by a very white firm flesh with a sweet flavour, and is particularly good for...
Braeburn Apple (dwarf) Considered one of the best 20th century apples. Discovered on the property of O.Moran, Waiwhero, Upper Moutere, New Zealand and was first grown commercially by William Bros. at Braeburn orchard, Upper Moutere in 1952. I Fruits have crisp, firm flesh with...
Braeburn Apple (medium) Considered one of the best 20th century apples. Discovered on the property of O.Moran, Waiwhero, Upper Moutere, New Zealand and was first grown commercially by William Bros. at Braeburn orchard, Upper Moutere in 1952. I Fruits have crisp, firm flesh with...
Bramley's Seedling Apple (dwarf) One of the world's great apples, with a great story, and commercially still the most popular cooking apple grown in the UK. It is particularly high in vitamin C and keeps well. Raised by Mary Ann Brailsford, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England between...
Bramley's Seedling Apple (medium) One of the world's great apples, with a great story, and commercially still the most popular cooking apple grown in the UK. It is particularly high in vitamin C and keeps well. Raised by Mary Ann Brailsford, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England between...
Bramley's Seedling Apple (tall) One of the world's great apples, with a great story, and commercially still the most popular cooking apple grown in the UK. It is particularly high in vitamin C and keeps well. Raised by Mary Ann Brailsford, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England between...
Breakwell's Seedling Apple (dwarf) Originated at Perthyre Farm, Monmouth, Wales in the late 1800s. It was propagated by George Breakwell who also introduced the variety to Bulmers as a valuable early-ripening cider variety. Trees are fairly vigorous with characteristic luxuriant,...
Breakwell's Seedling Apple (tall) Originated at Perthyre Farm, Monmouth, Wales in the late 1800s. It was propagated by George Breakwell who also introduced the variety to Bulmers as a valuable early-ripening cider variety. Trees are fairly vigorous with characteristic luxuriant,...
Brigg's Red May Peach Peach ‘Brigg’s Early May’ originated about 1870 as a chance seedling on the farm of John G. Briggs near Yuba City, California. Fruit medium to large, round, skin white with a rich red cheek; flesh greenish-white, melting, juicy, free;...
Brown Snout Apple (medium) Dessert wine-like qualities. Yellow-green coloured fruit, russeted, rarely slight pink-orange flush.ALERT - limited range in Australia, combination of very high chill requirement and late flowering results in few useful crops except in areas with cold,...
