Our Variety Assessment

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

Reinette de Hollande, also known as Baxter’s Pearmain, is an excellent dessert apple with firm, juicy and aromatic flesh and a well-balanced sweet-sharp flavour. Picked in early October, the fruit reaches maturity quickly and keeps until December. The relatively spreading tree is best suited to smaller trained forms and shows useful resistance to apple scab.

Reinette de Hollande

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

An old apple variety producing firm, juicy fruit with a balanced sweet-sharp flavour.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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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: 20601 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Reinette de Hollande Apple Tree is an old apple variety historically cultivated in northern France and Belgium, and associated with traditional regional orchards.

The fruit is medium-sized, with fine, firm and juicy flesh. Its flavour is well balanced, combining sweetness with refreshing acidity, making it suitable for fresh eating as well as traditional kitchen use.

Reinette de Hollande is known in northern French collections as an old variety, and has been linked to the historic English variety Baxter’s Pearmain, obtained in 1821. It was already mentioned in the 19th century by the nurseryman Thuillier-Alloux in Amiens.

This variety is particularly interesting for heritage orchards and regional fruit collections, especially for growers looking for traditional apple varieties adapted to northern France.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Variety reputed to have been grown in Pas-de-Calais and the Somme in the late 19th century, close to Reinette de Chênée.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Baxter’s Pearmain

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

To be grown as a low-stem tree, rather suited to low-trained forms

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility

Powdery mildew

Moderately susceptible

Pollination

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