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Chivers Delight

A delightful English apple, once grown commercially on a small scale, and worthy of more attention.

Chivers Delight can be considered an alternative to Cox's Orange Pippin, although the flavour comparison is not perhaps as close as some other Cox offspring.  It is basically a sweet apple like Cox's Orange Pippin, but with some sharpness to the flavour, and the flesh is more crisp.  Overall a very pleasing well-balanced apple.

Chivers Delight ripens fairly late in the season, and the apples can be stored for about 3 months without loss of flavour.

Fresh fruit for sale of this variety

Chivers Delight apple trees for sale (2010/2011 season)

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

Mature height Supplied as *Delivery
period		 Price
inc. delivery		 Quantity
Small (1.8m - 2.5m) 1-year - 3L container - M9 rootstock Sept-April £30.00 No stock
Medium (2.2m - 3m) 1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock Nov-March £30.00 No stock
Medium (2.2m - 3m) 2-year - 12L container - M26 rootstock Sept-April £39.00 No stock
Large (2.5m - 4.5m) 2-year - 12L container - MM106 rootstock Sept-April £39.00

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

  • Flavour quality - Very good
  • Flavour style - Sweet/Sharp
    Some aromatic qualities.
  • Good for eating fresh
  • Picking season - Late
  • Use / keeping - 3 months or more

Growing

  • Cropping - Good
  • Fertility - Self-sterile
  • Flowering group - 4
  • Fruit bearing - Spur-bearer
  • Gardening skill - Easy
  • Disease resistance - Average
  • Vigour - Average growth

Climate

Pollination partners for Chivers Delight

Chivers Delight is in flowering group 4. It is self-sterile and needs a pollination partner nearby. The following varieties will pollinate Chivers Delight:

Important: advice about pollination


How to grow Chivers Delight apple trees

Chivers Delight is a good garden apple, and easy to grow.  Cropping is reliable in most situations, but the flavour is at its best in a year with a sunny autumn.

Historical details

Developed in the 1920s in Cambridgeshire by Stephen Chivers, unknown parentage but likely to be Cox's Orange Pippin.



Chivers Delight - Fruit

Chivers Delight - Fruit

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Chivers Delight - Blossom

Chivers Delight - Blossom

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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