Lord Derby

• Picking season: Late
• Country of origin: United Kingdom
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 4
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Lord Derby is a traditional large English cooking apple, ripening in the mid to late season - from mid-September to early October.

Lord Derby fills a useful gap in the culinary apple calendar, arriving after the early cookers such as Keswick Codlin and Grenadier, and before the late cookers such as Bramley. This is not a variety for winter storage but the apples can be kept for a month or so in a cool place.

The Victorian author Hogg rated Lord Derby as an "excellent culinary apple". The flavor is nicely acidic if picked young, but milder if picked when fully ripe (at which point the skin develops a more yellow hue).

Although usually considered a cooking apple, many Lord Derby enthusiasts regard it as an excellent sharp eating apple too.

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Lord Derby apple trees for sale

• 11-year maiden bare-root tree 33.45€
  M26 rootstock
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• 21-year maiden bare-root tree 33.45€
  MM106 rootstock
  Large size (3m-4m after 10 years)
  

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• 31-year maiden bare-root tree 33.45€
  M25 rootstock
  Full size size (4.5m-6m after 10 years)
  

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How to grow

Lord Derby is a very easy apple tree for the garden, and like many Victorian culinary apples it has excellent natural disease resistance.

History

Cheshire, 19th century.

Lord Derby characteristics

• Gardening skillBeginner
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Pollinating othersAverage
• PloidyDiploid
• Bearing regularityRegular
• Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
• Picking seasonLate
• CroppingGood
• Keeping1-2 months
• Useful forCulinaryJuiceTraditional cooker
• Cooking resultTextured puree
• Disease resistanceGood
• ScabVery resistant
• Climate typeTemperate climatesMild damp climates
• Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Cold (< 20C / 67F)
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1850 - 1899
• AwardsRHS Plants for Pollinators