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Millicent Barnes
An old mid season red flushed dessert apple from Cheshire with quite sharp flavour.
Origin: Cheshire UK, 1903
Pollination: Millicent Barnes is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
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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 Millicent Barnes
Millicent Barnes apple was raised in about 1903 by N F Barnes the Head Gardener to the Duke of Westminster at Eaton Hall in Cheshire UK from Gascoyne's Scarlet x Cox's Orange Pippin. It is a medium sized round scarlet flushed dessert apple. It is crisp with quite a sharp brisk flavour. The tree is moderately vigorous and upright.Characteristics of Millicent Barnes apple trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Flushed |
| Flavour | Brisk |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Late Sep |
| Season of use | Oct-Dec |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Good |
| Pollination date | 10 |
| Pollination group | C |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | Cox's Orange Pippin Gascoyne's Scarlet |
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