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Breakwell's Seedling, Cider Apple. | Moderately vigorous bitter sharp cider apple. Medium size tree with heavy crops unusually early. Wild seedling propagated at Perthyre farm, Monmouth, by George Breakwell 1890. (Pollination group 4) | £26.50 | ||
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Cadwallader | Vintage Welsh bittersweet cider apple. Originating from and still widely grown in Brecon. (Pollination group 4) | £26.50 | ||
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Cummy Norman, Cider Apple. | Vintage bittersweet Welsh cider apple variety from Radnorshire with plenty of character. Makes a very good single variety cider. | £26.50 | ||
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Frederick (Pure sharp from Monmouthshire) | Producing a pure sharp juice with no astringency, and distinct fruity character for a single variety of cider is also good for blending with other varieties. Widely cultivated in Victorian times, the fruit is colourful yellow and striped red flush. Makes very good apple jelly! | £26.50 | ||
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Gelli Aur (Golden Grove apple) | Another Welsh original very local late cooking apple, found in Gelli Aur Mansion, near Llandeilo. Only ever found in one other location in Ireland where the Vaughn family had an estate and must have transplanted this useful cooking apple. Pick in late September. | £26.50 | ||
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Morgan Sweet | Lots of older customers remember eating this as a child in South Wales. (Eater and cider apple 1800's South Wales) Unusually sweet and low in tannins this prolific cropper has large yellow fruit and strong upright growth. Biennial cropping tendency. Used as an eater but also to blend and sweeten cider with other cider varieties. (Triploid) (Pollination Group B) | £26.50 | ||
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Pen Caled | A great all rounder in the Welsh tradition of multiple use apples varieties. Locally well-known mid-season cooker, juicer, cider and sometime eater apple whose ancestor grew originating from near the Abbey at St. Dogmaels, Cardiganshire. A good flavour juice and versatile to mix with other varieties, can be a good eaten if left late enough. Reliable and prolific cropper most years and makes excellent juice. Very hardy and disease resistant. (Pollination group B) | £26.50 | ||
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Perthyre | Very old Welsh bittersweet cider apple variety from Monmouth 1920s. Late harvest. (Pollination Group D) | £26.50 | ||
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Pig Aderyn (Birds beak) | This mid-season general-purpose variety makes a tasty, light cider. Distinctive fruit, upper part like a "birds beak" hence its Welsh name. Striped red/green fruit is still found growing at the abbey in St. Dogmaels near Carmarthen. It has been written that the Monks of St. Dogmaels had to be admonished by the Bishop of St. David's for their drunkenness, presumable from drinking too much cider! (Pollination group B) | £26.50 | ||
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Pride of Dinefwr, Cider Apple | Newly Discovered Bittersharp Welsh cider and juicing apple, found on the Home Farm of the Dinefwr Estate. Very abundant late cropper and good for juicing or cider. | £26.50 | ||
