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Gabalva | More rounded flavour and better looking than Bramley this big Welsh cooking apple was found growing near Cardiff Castle. Excellent in pies and tarts. Vigorous growing tree. Triploid like Bramley. Pick in September, will keep until November. | £21.50 | ||
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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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Machen | Second early eater with red skin from the Chepstow area. Dual purpose as it has a good culinary flavour improving as a juicy dessert apple with keeping. (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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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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Pig Yr Wydd | A hardy mid-season cooker from Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. Really a general-purpose variety, cook well with green, flushed pink skin and pale flesh and is good to mix in the cider barrel. Keeps well from October to January. (Pollination group B) | £26.50 | ||
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Tinyrwydd | A popular and prolific early cooker from Victorian times originating around 1870 in England the variety is called Lord Grosvenor. A good variety for high elevations, damp and windy places! It has an irregular knobbly shape hence the local Welsh name "Goose's Arse". The large green fruit keeps well and cooks to a tangy, light puree. Makes good juice and cider. (Pollination group B) | £21.50 | ||
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Wern | A cooking apple from Pembrokeshire it is also known as Scotch Bridget outside of Wales. Does well in damp and difficult areas. Flavour develops over time and keeps well. Pick in early October, will keep it until beyond December. Triploid. (Pollination Group 3) | £26.50 | ||
