"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Kay wrote:

Seriously - other posters in this thread seem to be suggesting that
some culinary apple varieties are self fertile. Are there any self
fertile culinary apples?

"Queen coxes" are supposed to be. We have one but have other apples,
so we aren't a useful testbed.

Acc. to Buckingham nurseries, the following are 'reasonable self-fertile':

Arthur Turner
James Grieve
Charles Ross
Worcester Pearmain
Scrumptious
Herefordshire Russet
Ellison's Orange
Egremont Russet
Red Falstaff
Laxton's superb
Sunset

Joan Morgan's 'Book of Apples' says some varieties are partially
self-fertile, but in the British climate all produce better crops if
cross-pollinated. 'Tetraploids tend to be self-fertile'.

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Anton