Flitch Green Parish Council secured the funding to plant 110 trees, growing fruit including both eating and cooking apples, cherries, pears, plums and gages. All the trees are Essex fruit varieties ...
The quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga) is in the rose family along with apples and pears, but is the only member in the Cydonia group. The fruit is tough to cut, and the cut flesh is the color of an apple ...