Period Fruit—Miscellaneous Fruit Seasonality

Cherries and Mazzards

Variety	Known by	In Season	Use	Production
White Heart		July	Eat	Medium
Old Black Heart		July	Eat	Medium
Amber		July	Eat	Medium
Archduke			Eat	Small
Morrelo			Cook	Small

Stella	Modern		Eat	Medium

Hannaford Mazzard			Cook or Eat	N
Dun Mazzard			Cook or Eat	N
Small Black			Eat	N
Bottler			Cook	N
Gean/Wild	Native		Cook	Small

While the older cherry trees fruit well we have a problem with birds stripping the eating varieties before they can be picked.

Medlars

Variety	Known by	In Season	Use	Production
Great	Tudor	November	Cook or Eat	Large
Small	Tudor	November	Cook or Eat	Large

Other Fruit

Variety	Known by	In Season	Use	Production
Mullberry, Black	Roman	July-Aug	Cook or Eat	Medium
Quince, Portugal	1629	Sept-Oct	Cook	Medium
Service, Wild	Native	October	Eat	Small
			Cook	N
Peach, Peregrin	1906			N

Nuts

Variety	Known by	In Season	Use	Production
Walnut, Regia				Medium
Hazel Native				Medium
Sweet Chestnut				Small

The dates by which there is evidence of these varieties being known in England must be treated as provisional and suspect. Continuity of a name over time does not prove genetic continuity. We publish the Fruit Variety Register which contains all the illustrations or written information we could uncover with on period fruit varieties between 1580 and 1660. A new much expanded version of this tracing backwards to the earliest mention of any variety thought to exist by 1660 and forward to show continuity to the present has been started. This is currently on hold awaiting the completion of a three year project to DNA test all of the thousands of apple, pear and cherry varieties in the Nation Fruit Collection. Once this DNA is cross referenced to DNA from Archaeological sites the dating of the origins of surviving fruit varieties will need to be totally rewritten.

Medlars Medlars

Mulberries