A medium sized, faintly ridged cooking apple with light yellow skin flushed blushed with bright red. It has hard, cream flesh. It keeps its shape when cooked, making it good for pies and tarts and also does not lose its colour when cut, so is good for salads. It was discovered in Ulster Count in New York some time before 1790 and was a favourite of Thomas Jefferson. It was widely planted in the United States during the 19th Century.
A name for Darcy Spice, a russet eating apple, discovered at The Hall, Tolleshunt D'Arcy in Essex in about 1785 and introduced commercially as Baddow Pippin in 1848 by John Harris of Broomfield, near Chelmsford. It flourishes in the hot, dry summers that are a feature of East Anglia. Properly ripened the fruit is spicily aromatic, sweet and acid at the same time. There is a tradition that this late-season apple is picked on Guy Fawkes Day (Bonfire Night, 5 November), though it is generally picked from late October, is stored and is at its best between between January and May.
An indeterminate variety of cordon tomato with a heavy yield of red fruits with fine flavour. The story goes that this variety survived as just three seeds had been stored in a tobacco tin for 25 years. It has been saved from extinction by Simpson's Seeds.
A recently introduced hybrid tomato suitable for cultivation under glass. Indeterminate, with strong, steady growing habit. It produces firm round fruits with good colour and shape.
