4-5ft ‘Lord Derby’ Cooking Apple Tree | M26 Semi Dwarfing Rootstock | 9L Pot

‘Lord Derby’ fills a useful gap in the culinary apple calendar, arriving after the early cookers, such as Keswick Codlin and Grenadier, and before the late cookers, such as Bramley. This is not a variety for winter storage but the apples can be kept for a month or so in a cool place. The Victorian writer James Hogg, author of ‘Confessions of a Justified Sinner’ rated Lord Derby as an “excellent culinary apple”. The flavour is nicely acidic if picked young, but milder if picked when fully ripe, at which point the skin develops a more yellow hue.