Beauty Of Bath Apple on G.11 (Spring 2026)
A early season heirloom apple.
The tree moderately vigorous, rounded and spreading, and productive. It is resistant to scab.
Once the most widely available early commercial apple in the UK, Beauty of Bath has been replaced by modern cultivars with better shelf life. That said, this is still a lovely apple for the back yard. Ripening late August to early September in NY, the fruit is quite tart when harvested - as you would expect from such an early apple - but it will sweeten if allowed (and it holds to the tree long enough) to ripen fully. It bruises easily and does not store well. This apple is for picking and eating, a celebration of the beginning of apple season. One of its most distinctive features is the bleeding of the skin to produce a pink tinge in the flesh when it is cut.
Beauty of Bath was introduced by Cooling of Bath c. 1864. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887.
Images from USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.
The Fruit
Fruit Type
Category: Apple
Subcategory:
Heirloom, Dessert
Fruit Uses & Storage
Uses: fresh eating, sauce
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)
Fruit Appearance
Skin color: red
Flesh color: tinged-pink
Fruit Origins
Parentage: seedling
Origin: Bailbrook, Bath, Somerset
Introduced in: c. 1864
Introduced by: Cooling of Bath
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 5 - 7
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Aug 31 (approximate, in New York State) 15 days before McIntosh
Tree Height & Spacing
glossary
Rootstock: G.11 Rootstock
Rootstock size class: Dwarf (25% of Standard)
Tree spacing (natural spread of tree): 8'
Good for wildlife planting? N
Diseases & Pests
glossary
Apple Scab: Resistant
Fireblight: Susceptible
Pollination
Pollination Factors
glossary
Bloom group: 2
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid
Rootstock size class:
Dwarf (25% of Standard)
Pollination Partners
This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Beauty Of Bath Apple on G.11. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.
| Tree | Currently in Stock |
|---|---|
| Blondee™ Apple on G.214 | 233 |
| Enterprise Apple on G.214 | 225 |
| Pixie Crunch™ Apple on G.11 | 178 |
| Newtown Pippin Apple on G.41 | 156 |
| Sansa Apple on G.11 | 143 |
| Golden Russet Apple on G.214 | 141 |
| CrimsonCrisp™ Apple on G.214 | 141 |
| Williams' Pride Apple on G.11 | 135 |
| Porter's Perfection Apple on G.41 | 126 |
| Sweet Sixteen Apple on G.41 | 118 |
| Virginia Crab Apple on G.214 | 117 |
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