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Adam's Pearmain

Adam's Pearmain was a popular English apple variety of the Victorian era.  Rated by the Victorian write Hogg as "A dessert apple of first-rate quality", it has a rich nutty flavour.

Fresh fruit for sale of this variety

Adam's Pearmain apple trees for sale (2010/2011 season)

Deliver to mainland UKDelivery to the mainland UK (price includes delivery)

Mature heightSupplied as*Delivery
period		Price
inc. delivery		Quantity
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon - 12L container - M9 rootstockSept-April£37.00
Large (2.5m - 4.5m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstockNov-March£31.00
Very large (4.5m+)1-year - Bare-root - M25 rootstockNov-March£32.00

Product formats | Bare-root or Container-grown | Delivery | Rootstocks

All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

*Delivery period: Container-grown trees will be delivered from September 2010. Bare-root trees will be delivered from mid-November 2010. You can order now and your items will be reserved for you, but you will not be asked to pay until nearer the time of delivery.



Uses

Growing

  • Cropping - Good
  • Fertility - Self-sterile
  • Flowering group - 2
  • Biennial tendency
  • Fruit bearing - Partial tip-bearer
  • Disease resistance - Good
  • Vigour - Weak growing

Climate

Pollination partners for Adam's Pearmain

Adam's Pearmain is in flowering group 2. It is self-sterile and needs a pollination partner nearby. The following varieties will pollinate Adam's Pearmain:

Important: advice about pollination


Horticultural characteristics of Adam's Pearmain apple trees

Adam's Pearmain is generally easy to grow, and it starts to bear fruit at an early age in the life of the tree.  Cropping is good.  The main problem to watch out for is a tendency to biennial bearing as the tree gets older - it may develop a pattern of alternate good and bad years.  You can either just live with this, or attempt to even it out by over-thinning the fruitlets in the good year.

Historical details

Originates either from Norfolk or Herefordshire in the UK.  Taken to the Horticultural Society of London in 1826 by a Mr Adams, under the name Norfolk Pippin.  However Hogg (writing in 1884) notes the similarity with the Hanging Pearmain of Herefordshire.  Unknown parentage.




Example trees as supplied (container-grown only)

This is an illustration of what our products look like as delivered. Please remember that trees are natural products, so this information is for general guidance only. The trees at this stage are 1-2 years old, and will get larger as they grow older, the likely mature heights are indicated in the ordering section above. The trees you receive may differ in some respects from those shown here, for some of the following reasons:

  • Many of these photos were taken in early autumn - trees delivered during winter will not have leaves.
  • There can be a considerable size variation between different varieties of the same species.
  • Some varieties naturally "feather" or produce many side branches at an early age. Others may not feather at all.
  • In some cases we may have to "tip" the tops of trees to fit in our delivery cartons. Please do not be alarmed, as this will be carried out immediately prior to despatch, and is actually good practice when planting a new tree.

For comparison purposes the model in our photos is 5ft 6" / 1m 68cm tall. Click any of the images to view a larger one.




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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on M27 rootstock
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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on M26 rootstock
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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on MM106 rootstock
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1-year apple tree in a 3L container on M9 rootstock
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Cordon apple tree in a 12L container on M9 rootstock