Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
James Grieve is an old variety of apple. It gets its name from its breeder James Grieve who raised the apple from pollination of a Pott’s Seedling or a Cox’s Orange Pippin apple in Edinburgh Scotland some time before 1893. This is a savoury juicy apple with strong acidity at first which then mellows as the fruit matures during September but the flesh softens soon thereafter. When picked early it makes a sweet and delicate stewed apple but then can be used as a dessert apple.
