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Claygate Pearmain is an
apple
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...
. It was found at
Claygate
Claygate is an affluent suburban village in Surrey, England, southwest of central London. It is the only civil parish in the borough of Elmbridge. Surrounded by green belt, it lies inside the Greater London Built-up Area.
Claygate was once in t ...
,
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
in
England
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and brought to the attention of the
Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nort ...
by John Braddick in 1821. The apple was a popular eating apple in
Victorian times and spread through England and to
America
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.
The apple was found by John Braddick, growing in a hedge at Claygate. Braddick also discovered the 'Braddick Nonpareil' at around the same time and place.
This medium-sized apple is
brown-russeted with a crimson patch on the sun-facing side. There is pink-silver tinge to the russet scale. Flesh,yellowish, crisp, juicy, rich, and sugary,partaking of the flavour of the Ribston Pippin. It comes into use in November, and will continue till March.
Being both disease and scab resistant.
Claygate Pearmain is self-sterile and requires a pollinator to produce a crop but is a heavy bearer that should be harvested late in the season.
Botanical name - ''Malus domestica "Claygate Pearmain"''
See also
*
Pearmain
A pearmain, also formerly spelled "permain", is a type of apple. The name may once have been applied to a particular variety of apple that kept well, although in more modern times its inclusion in varietal names was, like the term 'Pippin', "large ...
References
* Claygate Parish Council ''Claygate Heritage Trail'' (leaflet)
External links
Description from Albemarle Cider Works, Virginia USA
Apple cultivars
British apples
History of Surrey
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