Early Red Bird Apple

Malus domestica

A very early ripenning summer dessert apple with a sharp raspberry flavour.

Origin: Canada 1850

Pollination: Early Red Bird is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Show suitable pollination partners

A guide to choosing Apple Trees

Early Red Bird 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.

Rootstock / Vigour / Age / Form

Price

Quantity

MM111 - Vigorous 1 year Maiden

£17.50

History and description of Early Red Bird

Raised by Francis Peabody Sharp at Upper Woodstock, St John'sd Valley, New Brunswick, Canada sometime from 1850's to 1880's. Probably a Fameuse x New Brunswick. Formerly grown in New Brunswick. Very early ripenning, crimson flushed fruit. Soft, juicy flesh. Sweet sharp with a distinct raspberry flavour. Very hardy, vigorous tree.

Main characteristics of Early Red Bird

Use	Dessert
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Raspberry
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Early Aug
Season of use	Aug

Tree vigour	Vigorous
Tree habit	Upright-Spreading
Fruit bearing	Spur-bearer
Suitable for	Hardy

Pollination date	4
Pollination group	B
Self fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Show suitable pollination partners
Parentage	Fameuse
Progeny	Caravel
Other names	Crimson Beauty

Early Red Bird Apple