Julia’s Late Golden™

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Description: Julia’s Late Golden™ is a very special variety. A strikingly attractive large conical golden apple, crisp with a good sweet/acid balance. Keeps well into the new year. The tree is strong growing, healthy and predominantly tip bearing.

Cooking and juice: Cooks extremely well also holding its shape and can be used in tarte tatin, for instance, and where a cooked apple is required to be decorative too.  It is also absolutely delicious just poached with honey and makes the most fabulous tasting juice.

Julia’s Late Golden™ History: Named in memory of Julia Hember who died from leukaemia in 2003 aged 33. Julia spotted this tree growing in her parents’ garden in Wiltshire. It had appeared as a spontaneous seedling and had grown quite large producing apples which proved delicious. It was subsequently identified as unique by Dr Joan Morgan. Naturally, It was named in memory of Julia.

Donation: All trees sold will offer a donation to the Centre for Haemato-Oncology at Barts Cancer Institute. Julia Hember was a talented photographer and some of her unusual images can be seen in her book ‘They sing to me, with echoes of time’. All proceeds from the book also go to the same charity. Available online at YPD Books.