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Crawley Beauty
An old dual purpose apple from Sussex.
Origin: Sussex UK, 1870
Pollination: Crawley Beauty is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
British-grown 
All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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History and description of Crawley Beauty
Found in a cottage garden at Tilgate, near Crawley, Sussex in about 1870 and introduced by Messrs. Cheal and Co, Nurserymen of Crawley, in 1906. Received the RHS Award of Merit in 1912. In the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Faversham, Kent it appears to be identical with a French variety Nouvelle France. Mainly grown as a cooking apple but in late season can be a fair dessert apple.Medium size fruit, flat round to round and regular. Skin very smooth and quite greasy. Pale green to pale yellow skin, up to three-quarters flushed brownish red with short, broken stripes of fairly bright red. White flesh tinged with green, slightly coarse textured and rather dry. Cooks to a lightly-flavoured puree. Loses acidity with storage.
Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Produces spurs freely. Heavy cropper. Very late flowering good for regions subject to late frosts. Tollerates chalky and alkaline soils very well.
Characteristics of Crawley Beauty apple trees
| Use | Dual Cul & Des |
| Colour | Flushed |
| Flavour | Sharp |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Mid Oct |
| Season of use | Nov-Feb |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Heavy |
| Disease resistance | Scab - Resistant Mildew - Resistant Canker - Resistant |
| Suitable for | Chalky Soils Late Frost Northern Britain Wet Regions |
| Pollination date | 29 |
| Pollination group | H |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
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