• Early season eating apple trees

Exeter Cross Apple

Malus domestica

Exeter Cross Apple Trees for sale - order online

We currently produce this variety to order only through our bud-grafting service. You cannot order on line. If you wish to order please contact us using the messaging facility on the contact us page. Let us have your name, postal address, telephone and email address as well as which variety you would like us to produce, how many and on what rootstock. Bud-grafting is carried out in late July and early August. The trees would be supplied approximately 18 months later. We normally need to have received orders by the beginning of July. Please click here for full details of our bud-grafting service.

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History and description of Exeter Cross

Raised in 1924 by G T Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol from a Worcester Pearmain X Beauty of Bath. Named in 1954. Early dessert apple that ripens over a very long period.

Small/medium-sized fruit. Flat-round shape, fairly regular. Greenish yellow background skin colour with a scarlet flush. Distinct broad broken stripes over one-half to three-quarters of fruit. Smooth, rather greasy skin. Creamy white flesh, firm, crisp and juicy with a refreshing flavour. Quite astringent when eaten early but becoming crisp, juicy and sweet.

A tree of moderate vigour. Good cropper.

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Main characteristics of Exeter Cross

Use	Dessert
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Sharp
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Aug
Season of use	Aug
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright-Spreading
Fruit bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Disease resistance	Scab: Resistant
Pollination date	11
Pollination group	C
Self fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Show suitable pollination partners
Parentage	Worcester Pearmain, Beauty of Bath
Progeny	Redsleeves