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Well the label says greensleeves,don't look very green, they are supposed to be the same as golden delicious.I have a sneaky feeling some ones got some labels muxed ip.Any ideas?

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Look like apples to me burnie...but thats only a guess!

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Appologies for being a smart a*se! burnie

Never apologise for being a smart a*se, sort of defeats the purpose.

Look a bit like James Greaves to me

Didn't James Greaves play football for Tottenham?
I have a James Grieves and it is green not red,cummon you lot I can't dig it up an' take it back if I'm wrong, now can I?
Is it Melrose?

James Grieve, sorry was in a hurry. This apple is described as having yellow skin with a red flush and crimson stripes.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Yeah I suppose....once a smart a*se always a smart .... Problem occurs when you don't realize your a smart ... Getting a bit too Freudian here so I'll shut up!

Just been to the local garden centre where none of the pictures of the apple fruit on the cards at the bottom tallied with the actual fruit that was hanging on the trees in the pots, even though they had the same name on the tags!

Oh joy,and who said gardening was a great reliever of stress.........oh I did,amongst others no doubt.

Trouble is it could be one of loads!

Try e-mailing Brogdale see if they can help ID it as they have the national collection. scrap that they charge £18 !!!

It's not a good old Cox's is it?

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Thanks for trying , will see if it tastes any good before digging it out.

if it was from a normal garden centre it will only be one of about 4 or 5 varieties, trouble is they all look the same ! Have a look for Laxtons Supeb as thats one of the common ones.

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Sorry, I don't know what kind they are but not greensleeves. If you're disappointed with the apple, or because you were depending on it for pollination, why not take one and the label, to the dealer you bought it from. I'm sure a reputable dealer will be happy to come to a fair arrangement with you.

Looks a bit like a Jonagold ,Burnie, which is a cross between a Jonathon & a Golden Delicious but like you say doesn't look like a Greensleeves so probably was mis-labelled. It wasn't grafted was it & this is from the rootstock not the graft?

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Thanks for all the extra help,my problem is that it flowers later than my two other trees so not much fruit on it(the others are fine).I will take an apple and the label,that's a good idea.
It is a grafted tree on a dwarfing stock, but it's not the root thats growing the fruit.

Have a look at the Brogdale website they've got loads of piccies on there (several hundresd actually ) you may stumble across it. The fact that it's later may help eliminate a lot of them.

i still favour the Laxtons Superb.

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Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

Thanks nick