Spartan Apple Back To List Apple Parentage: McIntosh x Yellow Newton Pippin Description: Spartan is a heavy-cropping, very popular dessert apple of McIntosh type. Fruit is maroon, sweet, juicy and crisp with a white flesh. At best, perfumed with flavour like a cross between strawberry and melon; often described as vinous. An apple that ripens quite late in the season, usually in early October but needs to be well coloured before picked for its best flavour. Grown commercially in Canada and the UK. A very good pollinator for other varieties. History: Raised by R.C. Palmer at the Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada n 1926. First fruited in 1932; introduced in 1936. Pollination Partners: Apple Bloody Ploughman Apple Charles Ross Apple Christmas Pippin Apple Discovery Apple Fiesta Apple Gala Apple James Grieve Apple Laxton's Superb Apple Lord Derby Attributes Pollination group: Pollination group 3 Picking month: October Storing: January Uses: Eating Relatively trouble-free Any UK district Back To List Find a local stockist by selecting your county: Select a CountyAberdeenshireAngusArgyllshireAvonAyrshireBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionChannel IslandsCheshireClwydConwyCornwallCumbriaDenbighshireDerbyshireDevonDorsetDumfriesshireDunbartonshireDurhamEast LothianEast SussexEssexFifeGlamorganGloucestershireGwentGwyneddHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireHumbersideInverness-shireIsle of ManKentLanarkshireLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonLondonderryManchesterMerionethMerseysideMid GlamorganMiddlesexMidlothianMonmouthshireMontgomeryshireMorayshireNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshirePembrokeshirePerthshirePowysRenfrewshireRoxburghshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireStirlingshireSuffolkSurreyTaysideTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest LothianWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWigtownshireWiltshireWorcestershireYorkshire Search Discover these similar varieties… Christmas Pippin ® Apple An exceptional high quality eating apple with a beautiful honey flavour. Flowers and crops heavily. Full Details Bountiful Apple Soft juicy fruit, light and sweet when cooked. Slices retain their shape. A good disease resistant variety. Full Details White Melrose Apple Large, ribbed, yellow fruit. Sweet-sharp flavour when cooked. Heavy cropping and a spreading and vigorous tree. Full Details Stirling Castle Apple Large greenish-yellow fruit cooks to a sharp, light puree with plenty of flavour. Beautiful flowers in the spring. Full Details
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