The Heritage Apple tree cause
Some years ago, I was wandering through my local supermarket and I suddenly wondered what had happened to all the apple varieties of my youth. All I could see were piles of Pink Ladies, Jazz and Braeburns. No Russets, no Cox’s even. It turned out they’d just sold out of Cox’s and they were back in a couple of days later but it was too late by then. I trawled the depths of the internet and happened upon a thriving community of people trying to save lost and endangered heritage apple varieties. When my dad contacted me to say he’d bought a bit of land outside our home town of Louth, Lincolnshire, the die was cast. I started work on looking for Lincolnshire heritage apples and set up this blog to record my lack of progress.
Mrs Toogood
Mrs Toogood was an apple variety raised by the Lincolnshire orchardman Thomas Laxton in 1934. It was described as a medium sized flat apple ribbed around the eye with yellow skin and red flush and stripes. it was last recorded in 1946 but might possibly be lurking lost and forgotten at the bottom of somebody’s garden.
The Appeal of Mrs Toogood 