Claygate Pearmain

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Claygate Pearmain is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Claygate, Surrey in England in about 1822.

The apple was found by John Braddick, growing in a hedge at Claygate. Braddick also discovered the 'Braddick Nonpareil' at about the same time and place. The apple was a popular eating apple in Victorian times and spread through England and to America.

This medium-sized apple is brown-russeted with a crimson patch on the sun-facing side. There is pink-silver tinge to the russet scale. It has a a nutty aromatic flavour and good keeping qualities, being both disease and scab resistant.

Claygate Pearmain is self-sterile and requires a pollinator to produce a crop but is a heavy bearer that should be harvested late in the season.

Botanical name - Malus domestica "Claygate Pearmain"

[edit] Reference

• Claygate Parish Council Claygate Heritage Trail (leaflet)

[edit] External links

• Description from Virginia USA

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