Issue 5
Spring 2013
SUFFOLK TRADITIONAL ORCHARDS GROUP Newsletter and Workshop Programme Summer / Autumn 2013
Pear trees in flower In the next week or two the big pear trees of Suffolk will be in full flower, and this is the best me to find them; the rest of the year they blend into the background and can be mistaken for a tall ash or oak.
Inside this issue: Pear trees in flower
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Programme of events
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Cobnuts in Suffolk & the Ken sh Cobnut Associa on
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Beefings and Biffins by Monica Askay
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What’s in a name? (Coalman apple)
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STOG’s orchard tree buying scheme
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Opportuni es to gra fruit trees
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Common cobnuts in Suffolk
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Sour cherries, Morellos and Dukes
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The sequence of tree blossom in spring
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Contact us
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Fig 1 Fig. 1 In early April this old pollarded cherry plum was just fading showing typical widely sca ered small flowers. A huge pear behind the house is about to come into flower. Neither variety has been iden fied. It is believed that both trees were planted when the farm house was built in 1856.
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Fig. 2 In late April to early May, a huge uniden fied pear (looking like an oak in summer) bears small pears ripe in August; to the right is a walnut and on the far right, a Conference pear. 1