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The Orchard

When we took over the property the orchard contained about 60 fruit trees. We have extended the orchard by 2 rows with trees moved from what was the vegetable garden area along with new trees to replace those that were too big to be moved.There are now 76 fruit trees in the orchard with 2 more in the back garden. Of these 60 are apple trees, 7 plum, 5 pears, 2 gages, 1 damson, 1 quince and 1 crab apple. We have at least 65 different varieties. The variety count is uncertain as we have 6 apple trees yet to be identified.

Apples
Adams Pearmain
American Mother
Arlington Pippin
Ashmeads Kernel
Belle de Boskoop
Blenheim Orange
Braeburn
Bramley
Charles Ross
Chivers Delight
Cornish Gilliflower
Court Pendu Plat
D'arcy Spice

Delcorf
Devon Crimson Queen
Discovery
Egremont Russet
Ellisons Orange
Elstar
Epicure
George Cave
Greensleeves
Golden Knob
Holstein
James Grieve
Jonagold

Jonagold
Kidds Orange
Laxtons Superb
Limberland
Limelight
Lord Burleigh
Lord Lambourne
Oaken Pin
Payhembury
Peasgood Nonsuch
Pig's Snout
Pitmaston Pineapple
Plume Vite

Ribston Pippin
Scrumptious
Sops of Wine
Spartan
St Edmunds Pippin
Star of Devon
Sunset
Tale Sweet
Tom Putt
Whimple Wonder
William Crump
Woolbrook Pippin
Worcester Pearmain

Plums, Damsons & Gages
Blaisden Red
Coe's Golden Drop
Dittisham Ploughman
Herman
Landkey Yellow
Marjories Seedling
Old Greengage
Shropshire Prune
Victoria
Warwickshire Drooper
Pears
Conference
Merton Pride
Moonglow
Princess
Quince
Meech's Prolific
Crab Apple
John Downie
Fig
Brown Turkey

I attended a grafting course in February 2022 and as a result I have 14 grafted apples in pots which will soon be added to the orchard. The varieties are :- Bickington Grey, Dartmouth Seedling (crab), Rev McCormick, Spotted Dick, Tidicombe Seedling, Sweet Alford, Court Royal, Dons Delight, Peter Lock, Johnny Voun, Teighn Harvey, Browns, Slack ma Girdle and Ellis Bitter . All are Devon varieties.