Charles Ross is a large versatile English apple, which can be eaten fresh but is also good as a baking apple, and for apple tarts which require sliced apple.
The apples ripen mid-season and are very attractive, and look great in the fruit bowl. They store fairly well but the flavour and juice tend to fade.
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Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.
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Charles Ross is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other apple trees.
Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.
More advice about pollination.
Charles Ross is an excellent garden apple variety. It is easy to grow and has some natural disease resistance.
This is also a good variety if you have chalky soil, as it is more tolerant of alkaline conditions than most apple trees.
Planting instructions.
Pruning instructions.
Berkshire, UK, 1890. A cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Peasgood Nonsuch.
