Serviceberry. A luminous purplish berry which tastes similar, and looks akin, to cultivated blueberries.
Wild rice, native to North American, is the seeds of an aquatic grass that once grew wild around the American lakes, growing in shallow waters in small lakes and slow-flowing streams. It is a true water plant with sometimes only the flowering head of the plant protrudes above it. The genus is closely related to true rice, genus Oryza.
Wilja is a second early potato with fair flavour which is a good all-rounder. It holds its shape when cooked and particularly suitable for boiling or steaming. Use in salads or casseroles. It is also good for baking, mashing, sautéing or roasting. Yellow, netted skin and pale yellow flesh.
A variety of red flushed eating apple with intense, pineapple flavour, raised by the gardener of the same name at Madresfield Court, near Worcester, in 1908 as a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain. It received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1908 and the First Class Certificate in 1910. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at is best from December to February.
A medium-sized, sweet, juicy pear with yellowish-green, speckled skin flushed with pink. It has a tender texture and is used for culinary or dessert purposes.
A medium-sized, sweet, juicy pear with yellowish-green, speckled skin flushed with pink. It has a tender texture and is used for culinary or dessert purposes. It is an early variety.
