James Grieve Year:2 YR Grows well in wetter soil

Grows well in wetter soil (a favourite in Scotland) and described in the Herefordshire Pomona 1876-85 as 'one of the finest culinary apples'

Shown on maps dated to the 1800s

A hardy tree that grows well in most soils

round fruit

as saying 'it is the best family apple known' and wishing all his orchards were of Newland Sack

James Grieve Year:2 YR Grows well in wetter soilPopular multipurpose apple, good for eating, cooking and juicing. Excellent, refreshing flavour. Red flushed stripes over a pale green base. A creamy, juicy soft flesh, keeps its shape when cooked, one of the best apples to accompany your cheese board. It is self fertile, a reliable cropper, ready to harvest mid September. Raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh, thought to be a seedling of Potts' Seedling. First recorded in 1893, then introduced by his