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The Bramley Apple Festival takes place in Southwell on October 26.
The Bramley Apple Inn is located just a few doors away from the original apple tree, [18] which is considered to be a town treasure. In 2018, 27 Church Street was bought by Nottingham Trent University to preserve the building and the tree for posterity. Bramley Tree Cottage (left) with blue plaque visible on house doorway to right
The Queen's Green Canopy (QGC) was an initiative that began in May 2021 [1] in the United Kingdom in honour of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. To increase and protect the native tree cover, people were urged to create this 'special gift' for the Queen, to mark her 70 years on the throne.
The 'Crimson Bramley' apple was first discovered growing on a branch of a 'Bramley' apple tree in Nottinghamshire in 1913. [2] Like the 'Bramley' apple, the 'Crimson Bramley' is used for cooking due to its sharp taste, the only difference being the colour of the skin of the fruit.
Newton Wonder is a good apple for cooking or for making juice. When cooking the apple is reduced to a puree which may be added to pies, tarts or used as a chutney. The apple produces a sharp but slightly sweet taste when cooked and is best used when ripened in the late season. The crop can be stored for at least 3 months safely retaining its ...
Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor. Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire; Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire; Kett's Oak in ...
Apple tree size classes number from one to ten in increasing height and breadth. [2] A "1" is a dwarf which can be productive and as short as 3 feet (0.91 m) with proper pruning. A "10" is the standard sized tree with no dwarfing and will grow to 20 feet (6.1 m) tall and wide or more, dependent upon the variety chosen.
The grandson received a total of 23 varieties of apple from Connecticut in that year, most of which probably came from his grandfather's farm. The Putnam Russet (Roxbury Russet) was considered to be the best and most profitable winter apple of all the varieties received, and was regarded as a good "keeper" (an important characteristic in an age ...