Pam's Delight

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Malus domestica "Pam's Delight"
Brogdale Farm, 1968
OriginAlfred Hull, Bedfordshire, England, 1956

Pam's Delight is an English cultivar of domesticated apple.

Description

It is a

dessert apple,[1][2] medium-sized with a red flush. Sweet in flavour with a crisp and juicy flesh. Harvests mid-October and available in England from October to November.[3]

History

Alfred Hull, a retired clerk, planted some apple pips in pots which he placed on his bathroom windowsill in 1956.

Hodgkin's Disease, and Alfred told her that if his tree, which had become a family joke, ever bore fruit she would be the recipient of the first apple. In 1963, seven years after he planted the pip, the tree produced its first blossom, and from that, a single apple. He proudly presented it to Pam that October. Her illness became more severe, and she died, at the age of 28 the following April, just as the tree blossomed fully for the first time. That year the tree produced twenty two pounds of apples.[3]

Production

In 1968,

Brogdale Farm accepted Pam's Delight for full commercial trials. Later that year it was included in the National Register.[3]

Collections

This uncommon apple can be seen at Bide-a-While landscaped garden at Boggs Mead in the Lea Valley.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce: some Bedfordshire fruit". englandinparticular.info. England in Particular. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Pam's Delight". pomiferous.com. Pomiferous. 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Pam's Delight". fruitid.com. Rivers Heritage: Fruit ID. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9781852847746
    . Retrieved 15 June 2022.


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