Apple, Beauty of Bath

Description

A Somerset variety introduced about 1864. One of the very earliest dessert apples with distinctive flavour, sweet, juicy and pleasantly sharp and sweetly aromatic. Bright red flush on pale yellow skin and the creamy-white flesh is sometimes stained pink under the skin. Best eaten straight from the tree! Heavy crops, on moderately vigorous trees with spreading habit and producing spurs freely. The blossom of apple trees attracts bees, and later any fallen fruit is eagerly consumed by thrushes and other similar birds. Bullfinches are, unfortunately, partial to the buds.