Quinces & Medlars

Availability 2011-2012

QUINCES
On Quince A: £19.00

Champion	Regular heavy crops of greenish-yellow fruit. Sold out
Meeches Prolific	Bright golden yellow pear shaped fruit, excellent flavour, precocious. Sold out
Portugal	Large oval fruit, pale orange, early ripening. Sold out
Serbian Gold	a.k.a. Leskovacka. Heavy yielding, round fruited commercial variety. Sold out
Vranja	Pink tinged flowers, large pear shaped fruits, golden yellow; reliable cropper, good flavour. 2 y.o. & Maidens

MEDLARS
On thorn. £21.00

Royal	said to have a better flavour than Nottingham.
Nottingham	Traditional popular variety, also ornamental with large white flowers and large dark leaves. On thorn.

JAPANESE QUINCE - £6.50.

Chaenomeles x superba Boule De Feu

Rounded shrub to 2m with masses of orange-red blossom from late winter giving way to masses of quince-like fruits. Use as per quince and useful where the climate is too cold for true quinces. The seeds can be bitter.This variety chosen for its abundant flowering and cropping.

Chaenomeles japonica Cido or 'Northern Lemon'

Shrub to 1.5 m. Origin Latvia. Orange flowers winter/spring; apple-sized fruits ripen Sept/Oct with high vitamin C levels and twice as much pectin as apples. Grown commercially Baltic states for fruit preserves etc. £6.00

 

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