One of the oldest traditional English cooking apples, Dumelow's Seedling (or Dumeller's Seedling) has a rich full acidity, and cooks down to a stiff pale puree.
This is one of our own favourite cooking apples, perfect for apple crumble.
**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.
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.
*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime.
Stock availability: Items showing as 'sold out' will probably be available again next season. If you would like to reserve in advance use our enquiry form - this does not commit you to anything.
Dumelow's Seedling is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.
Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.
More advice about pollination.
Dumelow's Seedling is easy to grow and like many old cooking apple varieties it is relatively disease-resistant.
Planting instructions.
Pruning instructions.
Raised by Richard Dumeller of Shakerstone, Leicestershire, in the early 1800s.
Descended from Northern Greening and in turn a parent of several well-known cooking apples - Lane's Prince Albert, Monarch, and Newton Wonder.
