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	Name	Type	Species	Date added
	Ansell An old cider variety from the Oldbury-on-Severn district	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Arlingham Schoolboys A general purpose variety from the village of its name. The last tree in Arlingham died in the late 1990's	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Ashmead's Kernel An excellent dessert apple. Gloucestershire's most famous apple started in 1700 but not recognised much outside the county for nearly 300 years after its birth.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Ballast Apple A cider apple from Shepperdine but known from elsewhere in the county.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Barnet's Beauty A dessert variety possibly originating at the `Ring o'Bells' Inn mentioned in Dickens's Pickwick Papers.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Ben Lans A curiously named general purpose apple from Minsterworth	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Berkeley Pippin This once well regarded dessert apple was thought to be extinct until located and rescued for the Gloucestershire Apple Collection.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Blood Royal A general purpose variety from Minsterworth which lives up to its name.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Box Kernel A general purpose variety believed to have originated at Box Farm, Awre. It is still well regarded in Awre to-day but hasn't spread much from the village.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Bushy French A rare bittersweet cider variety from Minsterworth.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Cambridge Queening A general purpose variety from the village of its name south of Gloucester. Queening implies it is angular from the French `coin'	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Captain Kernel	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Chaceley Kernel A beautiful dessert apple from the village of its name	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Chaxhill Red A 19th Century general purpose apple from the village of its name. Best known for cider production.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Corse Hill Started at Corse Hill Farm in the 19th Century. General purpose but best known for cider. Widely spread in Gloucestershire.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Dent's Favourite A general purpose variety from Minsterworth. Nothing is known of its history.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Dymock Red A very old vintage cider variety from the village of its name. Also useful for dessert and culinary purposes.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Eden Started 1948 at Falfield. A dessert variety, it is also known as Fon's Spring.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Elmore Pippin From the village of its name. A dessert variety still to be found in its home area.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Fawke's Kernel Started in the 19th Century at Dymock by the Fawke family. Well known in Dymock until recently. General purpose.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Flower of the West A keeping dessert from Minsterworth where it was well known. Unrecorded outside its area.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Foxwhelp A classic old cider variety whose fame and use has spread into Herefordshire.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Gilliflower of Gloucester Collected in Saul. A beautiful dessert variety of poor quality. Its appeal may just lie in its appearance and name.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Gloucester Royal A dessert variety raised at Dursley in about 1930.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown
	Gloucestershire Underleaf A much loved and previously widespread general purpose variety. Curiously in the 1880s it was hardly known.	Apple	Unknown	Unknown

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