Variety is the spice of life, right? At least it’s the inspiration behind my small budding orchard! 24 varieties of apple, 3 varieties of pear, not to mention 3 plums and my peach tree. All told, there will be roughly 100 fruit trees; 88 in the lower field, with a few others planted here & there.
This spring, with any luck, will see my pears and apples finally planted out from the nursery bed in the garden to their permanent home in the small, lower field.
An asterisk denotes an ‘inedible’ variety – suitable only for cider. The last five, bolded below, are new varieties I’ll be grafting this spring.
APPLES
Kingston Black *
Dabinett *
Golden Russet
Yarlington Mill *
Honeycrisp
Esopus Spitzenberg
Bramtot *
William’s Pride
Keepsake
Porter’s Perfection *
Wickson
Black Oxford
Ashmead’s Kernel
Fallawater
Northern Spy
Calville Blanc d’Hiver
Bitter Pew *
Cox’s Orange Pippin
Pound Sweet
Harry Master’s Jersey *
Chestnut
Opalescent
Westfield Seek-No-Further
Windham Russet
PEARS
Brandy
Bartlett
Beane Hill Pear (Uknown variety from a tasty tree already on the property)
Beane Hill Farm 