A FIRM on a mission to save Britain's endangered fruit trees has a new Northants variety available for planting this autumn.
Farmer David Marchant recently discovered a variety growing in the Stony Stratford area, which he dubbed the Golden Bromham Pippin.
Apple enthusiasts Andy Howard, from Adderbury, and Marcus Roberts, from Farthinghoe, founders of the Heritage Fruit
Tree Company, have now grafted the Golden Bromham Pippin, and the tree will be available for planting this autumn.
The Golden Bromham Pippin is named after its golden hue, and also in recognition of the Apple Days Mr Marchant regularly attends at Bromham Mill in Beds.
It is described as a sweet aromatic dessert apple which is ideal for children, and stores well into February and March.
Mr Howard and Mr Roberts also run the Mid-Shires Orchard Group, which offers training in orchard management, and is engaged in a project to restore an orchard in Stowe Landscape Gardens.
Other local varieties available from Mid-Shires this autumn include Eady's Magnum, Feltham Beauty, Thorpes Peach, Corry's Wonder, Eynsham Challenger, Foulke's Foremost, Jennifer, Old Fred, Oxford Beauty and the Deddington Pippin.
The Golden Bromham Pippin will be on sale alongside the new Oxfordshire apple variety the Deddington Pippin – found by Mr Howard last December –at various events this autumn.
The Heritage Fruit Tree Company is on 01295 810516.
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