Our Variety Assessment

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

Peasgood’s Nonsuch is primarily remarkable for the impressive size of its apples. The somewhat coarse-textured, moderately juicy and mildly sweet flesh is at its best when cooked. We recommend it for baking, sauces and desserts, as well as to growers seeking spectacular fruit. It is less suitable for anyone looking primarily for a fine-textured, highly aromatic dessert apple.

Peasgood’s Nonsuch

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.

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SKU: 1356 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Peasgood’s Nonsuch is a good-looking traditional English cooking apple from the Victorian era. As the name suggests, it was raised by Mrs Peasgood of Stamford, Lincolnshire – probably in the middle of the 19th century. The term “Nonsuch” sounds rather derogatory, but it is a mis-translation of the French “sans-pareil” or “non-pareil”, and actually means “un-surpassed”.

The apples ripen mid-season and can be kept for a few weeks, filling the gap before the late-season cooking apples become available.

Peasgood’s Nonsuch has all the qualities expected in a traditional English cooker – large size, plenty of juice, and a sharp tangy flavour. The coarse light flesh readily cooks down to a puree – regarded as a desirable feature in English cookery.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

English culinary apple from a seedling of Catshead sown around 1858 by Mrs Peasgood at Stamford, Lincolnshire, then awarded by the RHS in 1872.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Partially self-fertile

Pollinator value

Good pollinizer

Ploidy

Probably diploid

Origin and identity

Parentage

Catshead × unknown parent

Synonyms

Peasgood's Nonsuch, Peasgood Nonesuch, Peasgood, Non Pareille de Peasgood, Sans Pareil de Peasgood

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous, spreading habit, spur-bearing, good production

Disease behaviour

Scab

Resistant

Powdery mildew

Resistant

Canker

Susceptible

Pollination

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For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Additional variety information for Peasgood's Nonsuch is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.