scionwood

SCIONWOOD

All scions will be cut into 6-8 inch lengths — enough to graft 3 trees. It will arrive wrapped in wet newspaper and plastic and needs to be kept like this in a fridge until used in spring. All scions are $5.00 each + freight.

APPLES:

If you are ordering this apple scionwood you need to have a rootstock to graft it onto. Apple rootstocks come with roots on them so you can plant the rootstock in winter and graft that same rootstock in spring when the buds on the rootstock begin to swell.

Type	Ripe	Uses	Description	Origin
Ahipara	Mid/late	Dessert	Excellent depth of flavour.	Ahipara
Akane	Mid-season	Dessert	Bright red, hard, develop flavour and sweetness with age of tree-outstanding, heavy, reliable cropper.	Unknown
Bill Rogers	Very late	Dessert, cook	Medium, round, red streaky skin, white	Whitianga
Captain Kid	Mid season	Dessert	Very sweet, red delicious type, red flesh, thick skin, birds can’t eat through it so it lasts on tree until June.
Devonshire Quarendon	Late Jan	Dessert, classic toffee apples	Bright red, good flavour. Soft flesh, reliable prolific cropper	Tangiteroria
Early Strawberry	Dec/Jan	Dessert	Very sweet, small, golden delicious type.	Auckland
Freyberg	Mid March	Dessert	Pale skin, yellow juicy, very sweet flesh.	Havelock Nth
Giant Geniton	Late	Dessert, cook	Outstanding, heavy reliable cropper-similar to Granny Smith, keeps well.	Kaipara
Golden Russet	Mid-late	Dessert	Golden russet skin, good keeper,	Northland
Haywood Wright	Late early	Dessert	Bright red russety skin. Sweet excellent flavor	Auckland
Jack Hum Crab Apple		Cider, vinegar,	Red, heavy reliable crops in Northland. Commercial pollinator variety.
Jacqui Sharp
Lady Finger Cider	Late	Dessert, cider, vinegar	Bright red skin, full of flavour, very sweet.	Unknown
Lobo	Early Mar	Dessert, cook,	Bright, solid red, large. Excellent juice, keeper, flavour and texture.	Havelock Nth
Mayflower	Mar/Apr	Dessert, cook, juice, drying	Flat shape, green skin, russet yellow flesh, outstanding flavour.	Hokianga
Munroe				Matakohe
Maxwell Quirk	march	desert	Golden delicious parent ,excellent sweet flavour, crisp yellow skin unusual shape	Northland
Merton Worcester	Mid-late	Cook	Excellent, precocious, prolific.	Motueka
Ohinemuri	Mid	Dessert, cook, juice, dry	Yellow skin, sharp.	Tangeteroria
Oruru	Mid	Dessert	Outstanding flavour, red, yellow, colourful skin.	Oruru
Peasgood Nonesuch	Mid Mar	Dessert, cook	Huge, flat, stripy	Unknown
Red Cooker Israel		Cook		Northland
Red Spy	Mid late	Eat, juice, cook	Sweet, needs other apples for pollinating.	Paparoa
Reinette de Canada	Late	Excellent cooker, good keeper	Heavy reliable cropper in Northland.	Kaipara
Russet Matakana	march	Excellent desert	Golden russett skin, rich deep flavor, best after picked for two weeks	Matakana
Vaile Early	Dec/Jan	Dessert, eating	Sub acid, good early apple	Paparoa
Wilson’s Own	Mid season	Dessert, cook	Yellow skin, red blush.	Paparoa
Winesap	late	desert	Red skin. Old fashioned very sweet excellent flavor, winey, dense flesh	Kaipara
Worcester Pearmain	Mid/late	Cooker	Large fruit, heavy cropper, outstanding.	Unknown
Golden Delicious	Mid season,	Dessert	Sweet, excellent flavour, large.	Kaiwaka
Granny Smith	Late	Dessert, cook	Excellent flavour.	Port Albert
Willie Sharp	Mid	Dessert, cook	Excellent flavour.	Wellsford
Zimmerman	Mid season	desert	Large, elongated ,pointy ,square apple , red streaky skin excellent rich sweet flesh	Chatham Islands
Wendy Reid				Raglan
Sweet Red				Northland
Astrakhan	Late	Dessert, keeper	Red colouring right into flesh.	Dargaville
Sturmer	mid	cooker	Large green skinned red blush, excellent cookers	Port Albert
Jonathon				Port Albert
Red Delicious			Original cultivar , skin almost black when ripe, wonderful sweet flesh excellent flavor	Kaitaia
Gravenstein	early	desert	Acid early eater	Port Albert
Wilson’s Orange	mid/late	desert	Streaky red skin, very rich full flavour
Welcome	Dec/Jan	desert	Another great early eater, streaky red skin	Te Hana
Golden Hornet	Late	Crab apple, cider,	pollinator

PEACHES:

If you are ordering peach scionwood you need to have either a plum rootstock or a peach seedling rootstock to graft it onto. If you are ordering Marianna cuttings to grow your own plum rootstocks from us they will need a year to grow before they are ready to graft. If you are ordering peach stones from us they will also need a year before they are ready to graft.

Type	Ripe	Description	Origin
Batley	Mar/Apr	Dessert, honey coloured flesh/skin, transparent when ripe, red blush.	Batley, Kaipara Harbour
Blackboy	Feb/Mar	Excellent bottling & cooking, furry, thick dark skin, red flesh.	Kaiwaka
Christina	Early Feb	White flesh, similar to River Peach, but firmer, sweeter and later.	Warkworth
Hokianga Golden	Feb/Mar	Dessert, bottling, cooking, small golden flesh, intense flavour.	Hokianga
Lady Adelaide	Jan	Weeping form, white flesh.	Auckland
Peacherine Matakohe	Feb	Buttery texture, deep golden, very sweet.	Matakohe
Peacherine Joy Yearbury	Feb	Excellent flavor	Northland
No. 52 Peach	mid	Heavy reliable bearer of green skin white flesh. Honey sweet very juicy excellent flavour flesh	Kaitaia
Orion	Early Dec	White flesh, small fruit, heavy, reliable crops.	Kumeu
Peacherine	Late	Hairy green skin, amber flesh, good flavour.	Red Bluffs Mathew Bros
River	Late Jan	Sweet white flesh, heavy reliable crops, freestone.	Koanga
Pudge	Feb	Like an apricot, amazing flavor and golden	Northland
Red	feb	Red leaves, stunning tree, golden flesh with red skin and red around the flesh	Helensville
Four Winds	march	Huge crops, green skin, red blush, ripe after 52, top peach	Kaitaia

EUROPEAN PLUMS:

Please note: all these European plums fruit better on peach or on old European plum type rootstocks or peach rootstocks than they do on Marianna.

Type	Ripe	Pollinator	Uses	Description	Origin
Angelina Burdett	Feb	Greengage	Dessert	Soft, very sweet, purple skin, yellow flesh.
Ahipara 1 (Victoria?)	Jan	Angelina Burdett	Dessert, cook	Prune, very firm, sweet, freestone.	Ahipara Gumfields
Ahipara 2 (Golden Drop)	Mid Jan	Self fertile/ Angelina Burdett	Excellent dessert	Small, yellow flesh and skin. Very sweet.	Ahipara Gumfields
Aue	Mid Dec	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert, jam	Yellow flesh, red skin.	Matakohe
Marabella	Late Dec	Self fertile	Dessert, bottling	Yellow flesh, red skin.	Cox, Northland
Meribel	Early Jan	Self fertile	Dessert, bottling, jam	Yellow flesh, red skin.	Matakohe
Puhoi Plum	Mid season	Self fertile	Dessert, bottling	Yellow flesh and skin, excellent dessert.	Puhoi Valley
Italian Prune	Feb	Probably Angelina Burdett	Dessert, drying	Purple skin, egg shaped, yellow freestone, fruits well in the North.	Ex DSIR collection
Giant Prune	Feb	Angelina Burdett	Dessert, cook	Large prune, red skin, yellow flesh, freestone.	RB/Matt*
Golden Drop		Angelina Burdett	Dessert	Yellow skin and flesh.	RB/Matt*
Mangamuka	Jan	Self fertile	Dessert	Yellow green flesh, delicious.	Mangamuka
Plumcott	Early	Self fertile	Excellent dessert	Apricot texture/flavour.	Northland
Sharpe’s Early	Early	Dessert		Red on skin, yellow flesh, interesting after-taste.
Sugar prune	Mid Feb	Angelina Burdett	Dessert, drying	Yellow flesh, dark skin, freestone.	RB/Matt*
Stanley Prune			Dessert, drying	Red skin, yellow flesh, freestone.
Tragedy Prune	Early	Angelina Burdett	Dessert, drying	Yellow flesh, purple skin.	RB/Matt*
Victoria	Jan	Self fertile	Dessert	Purple skin, yellow flesh.	Tangiteroria
Transparent Gage	Late Jan	Angelina Burdett	Dessert, cooks up like apricots	Yellow, transparent skin with red flecks.	Kohukohu
Whakapirau Gold ( old Yellow O'gen)	Jan	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert	Yellow flesh and skin, large, sweet, melting.	Whakapirau

JAPANESE PLUMS:

Type	Ripe	Pollinator	Uses	Description	Origin
Burbank	Mid Jan	Self fertile	Dessert	Large, red skin, yellow flesh.	Kaiwaka
Black Prince		Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert	Red/black flesh, large.	Kohukohu
Dan’s Early	Early Dec	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert	Yellow flesh, red skin.	Wilderlands
Satsuma	Mid- season	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert, sauce, bottling	Red skin and flesh.	Satsuma
Scarletina	Mid Jan	Self fertile	Dessert, jam, bottling	Red flesh and skin.	Matakohe
Tamaki Special	Late Dec	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert, bottling	Red flesh, large.	Wilderlands
Taneatua ( an old Burbank)	Feb	Self fertile	Dessert	Large red/yellow skin, yellow flesh.	Taneatua
Burbank	Feb	Self fertile	desert	excellent flavour	Kaiwaka
Duff’s Early Jewel	Jan	Self fertile Red skin, yellow flesh, small.	Dessert, pollinator	Red skin, yellow flesh, small.	Ex Commercial
Billingtons Early	Dec	Duff’s Early Jewel			Commercial variety
Xmas Fullers	Early	Duff’s Early Jewel	Dessert	Red skin and flesh, small, prolific, good taste	Haywood Wright collection, BOP

PLUMS (NOT SURE):

Type	Ripe	Pollinator	Uses	Description	Origin
Dan’s Delight	Jan		Dessert	Very special flavour, delicate.	Wilderlands
Little John	Jan		Dessert	Very special, large, meaty, red inside, red skin, ex. flavour.	Northland
Purple King	Feb		Dessert	Large plum, ex. flavour.	Northland

OTHER FRUITS:

Apricots and nectarines need to be grafted to either peach seedlings or plum rootstocks; medlars onto quince rootstocks

Species	Type	Ripe	Description	Origin
Apricot	Pahi	Jan	Self fertile, dessert, bottling, crops well in far North.	Pahi
	Tamaki	Dec/Jan	Large nectarine size.	Auckland
	Waipapakauri	Mid season	Self fertile, medium size, heavy cropper in far North.	Waipapakauri,
	Newcastle	Early	dessert, bottling	Northland
Medlar	Medlar		Related to pear. Graft onto quince or pear stock.	Whangarei
Nectarine	Black Pearl	Feb	Smooth skin, flesh similar to blackboy peach.	Auckland
	Goldmine	Feb	White flesh, melting, sweet.
	Kaitaia	Feb	Excellent, white flesh, very red skin, ex. flavour.	Kaitaia
	Matakohe	Feb	White flesh, looking very interesting.	Matakohe
	Wanganui		Similar to Goldmine	Wanganui

PEARS:

Pears can be grafted onto either quince BA29 to achieve a dwarf tree that fruits earlier, or pear seedlings which grow to huge trees and take years to fruit. Some pear cultivars are not compatible with Quince BA29, all of those offered here are.

Type	Ripe	Description	Origin
Bert’s Early	Jan	Self fertile, dessert, small, ex. Quality.	B. Davies,
Bert’s sel. Bon Cretian	Early Feb	Pollinator: Seckles. Dessert, bottling, good size, great flavour.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Clergeau	Early Mar	Pollinator: Seckles. Dessert, bottling, reliable, beautiful.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Kefir	End Mar	Pollinator: Seckles. Ex. keeper, crisp, sweet, juicy.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Princess	Feb	Pink blush, pollinator: Seckles.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Seckles	End Feb	Self fertile, dessert, small, honey, sweet, small tree.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Triumph de Vienna	Late Feb	Pollinator: Seckles. Dessert, outstanding flavour, large, juicy.	B. Davies, Wellsford
Winter Cole	Late	Pollinator: Winter Nellis, Seckles, small russet skin, ex. flavour, good keeper.	Auckland
Winter Nellis	Late	Small, round, ex. flavour, disease resistant, good keeper	Auckland

CUTTINGS

ROOTSTOCKS