Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Adam’s Pearmain is an excellent old English apple for growers who enjoy complex, russet-style flavours. Its firm, fairly dry flesh develops rich sweet-sharp and slightly nutty notes after storage. The tree begins bearing relatively young but can become biennial with age. Probably triploid and a poor pollinator, it should be planted with two compatible apple varieties nearby.

Adam’s Pearmain

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Adams’ Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive ‘pearmain’ shape.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4303 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Adams’ Pearmain is a well-known traditional English apple variety of the Victorian era which remains popular today.

It is known for its rich nutty flavour, and was rated by the Victorian writer Hogg as “A dessert apple of first-rate quality“.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old English dessert apple, presented in 1826 to the Horticultural Society of London under the name Norfolk Pippin, with its origin debated between Norfolk and Herefordshire.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

3 month