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Lord Suffield Apple

Malus domestica

Lord Suffield Apple Trees for sale - order online

Please select the rootstock, age and tree form available items in the table below. The choice of rootstock is important as it determines the size to which the tree will grow when mature. Trees are available either as maidens which are untrained one year old trees or two year old trees already trained in a particular form. Reduced price trees when available are smaller one year old trees or two year old trees which have less well developed heads than our regular trees but are otherwise perfectly good healthy trees offered at a lower price. Trees are supplied bare root during the planting season from late November to early March. Further information is available below.

• Information on rootstocks
• Information on tree forms
• General advice on choosing fruit trees

Rootstock / Vigour / Age / Form

Price

Quantity

M26 - Semi-dwarfing   1 year Maiden

£17.50

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M25 - Very vigorous   1 year Maiden

£17.50

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History and description of Lord Suffield

Lord Suffield is a codlin type apple raised by a hand loom weaver called Thomas Thorpe in the back garden of his cottage on Boardman Lane in the village of Rhodes near Middleton which is now on the outskiris of Manchester. In 1836 he planted the tree in the orchard of Middleton Old Hall where he worked as a gardener. This was the estate of Lord Suffield and hence the variety became known as Lord Suffield. It was a very popular Victorian cooking apple grown in gardens and for the early market.

Conical slightly ribbed medium to large fruit. Green skin with prominent lenticels turning yellow as it ripens. Acid white flesh which cooks to a sharp froth. The tree is compact and bushy. A heavy cropper.

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Main characteristics of Lord Suffield

Use	Culinary
Colour	Yellow
Flavour	Acid
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Mid Aug
Season of use	Aug-Sep
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright-Spreading
Fruit bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Heavy
Special features	Attractive Blossom
Pollination date	4
Pollination group	B
Self fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Show suitable pollination partners