Cerumen wrote:
Pam Moore wrote:
12 years ago my 3 year old granddaughter and I planted an apple pip.
Having spent several years in a pot, it is now in their garden and
fruited for the first time last year, with even more fruit this year.
My family say that these are the nicest apples they have ever tasted!
I've not had a taste yet.
Can anyone advise me how one goes about having a new apple assessed?

Congratulations but why do you think it is a "new" apple rather than the
same as the apple from which you planted the pip?

Because it is well known that apples do not come true from seed/pips. The
only way to guarantee the propagation of a known variety is to use
vegetative propagation techniques (usually grafting or budding). The
converse is that any apple grown from seed is a "new variety" - even
though it may show many characteristics similar to its parents.