Apple Paradise Gold (56) & also (58)

Description:

Paradice Gold is an excellent new dessert apple. The fruit has attractive red skin and a sweet, crisp flavour. This apple was selected as the best of several newly bred apples for its superb characteristics. Its a great all round apple of some distinction.

Eating. Sweet, crunchy. Juices well

Spur bearer (good for cordons & espaliers)

Self sterile, Pollinator, Group C

Tidy habit, suitable for most gardens

Harvest: October.

Store & ripen in a cool, dry place: End November.

History:

Bred by Hugh Ermen of Kent. Chosen by the London Paralympic Legacy as a new apple to be planted in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to recognise the importance of this organisation to UK sport.

One of Hugh Ermen's (1928–2009) last jobs, it was selected from a range of hopeful new varieties by the London Paralympic Legacy as their special tree in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Mr Ermen was the Brogdale research institute's undefeated champion apple breeder for decades. His trail of achievements includes Core Blimey, Herefordshire Russet, Limelight, Scrumptious, and Winter Gem, and he worked to promote 'own root propagation' of apple trees using layering techniques, as opposed to grafting scion wood onto a rootstock from another tree.

on MM106 root stock  

Most fruit trees are grafted. That is the roots are are not the same as the above ground part. So you can select not only the variety of fruit, but how you want it to grow. 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/fruit-trees/rootstocks

Name of rootstock: MM106 (semi-dwarfing)

Suitable for: All forms except standards

Start fruiting: After three or four years

Ultimate height as trained as bush: 3-4m (10-13ft) x 4m (13ft)

Growing conditions: Tolerant of a range of soils including grassed orchards and poor soils. The most widely used rootstock, but unsuitable for small gardens.

Staking: 5 years; longer in exposed locations

Spacing: 3.6 (12ft) with 4.5m (15ft) between the rows