From Granny Smith and Golden Delicious to Brownlees Russet and Wadhurst Pippin ... new varieties every winter. The tree’s fruits now include rare cooking apples such as the Withington Fillbasket ...

It’s the extra tree time to ripen that ... The Egremont Russet, which happens to be my very favorite apple, has a clean, golden skin that gives it a regal quality; it would not look out of ...