Early Victoria Apple Trees

Malus domestica Early Victoria - Cooking Apples

Sometimes called Emneth Early, Early Victoria's fruit have the best cooking apple qualities of being tart, sweet and keeping all their flavour after they have been cooked. A radiant light green during growth, these apples usually turn a rustic pale yellow when ripe. After baking, they have the same divine nature as a Bramley: crumbling into a texture both airy and smooth that is full of sharp, fruity syrup and juice. Some say cookers this good are best eaten with raisins, sultanas and butter in the centre, straight from the oven. They are, however, also delicious in any meat or vegetable main course, usually as a puree or sliced if the dish is being grilled. Harvest between August and September.

Early Victoria History and Parentage

Mr Lynn of Emneth, Cambridgeshire, crossed Lord Grosvenor and Keswick Codlin in the late 1890's, so the early crops would have been some of the 20th century's first new fruit. Codlins are quite early season cookers with an adventurous pasta man from Keswick found the tree growing on a rubbish dump. Lord Grosvenor apples are later cropping, very sharp and are pale yellow like the Early Victoria.

Apple Tree Pollination guide for Early Victoria

Early Victoria is a self-fertile tree but needs a suitable pollinator to produce a bumper harvest. Flowering in April and May, your tree will match any of the early or mid season Trees- in the pollinators category of the Apple Tree Pollination table - a couple of the best are listed at the foot of this page. Alternatively, Crab apple Trees- are number one for pollinating a whole orchard across the seasons; the best species in our books are the Red-berried and Golden Hornet crab Trees.

Rootstocks for Early Victoria

We use MM106 rootstocks for all the apple Trees- we sell. These are the UK standard for medium sized Trees-, designed to be pruned by gardeners at home and produce enough fruit to be a decent orchard tree. These rootstocks have good resistance to dry periods once your tree is happily established in the soil. A mature tree will be about 4 metres, 15 feet tall and if trained as a bush should give 3 metres of fruit laden branches.

If you are unclear about fruit tree sizes take a look at our Guide to Fruit Tree Sizing

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