National Fruit Show

NATIONAL FRUIT SHOW CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF THE BRAMLEY

OCTOBER 21st & 22nd 2009 - KENT SHOWGROUND, DETLING, MAIDSTONE

Competitions

Apples and Pears

Class No. Variety Size Sponsor
1 Bramley 90-100mm United Agri Products Ltd & Scorpion Engineering
2 Bramley 80-90mm FP Matthews Ltd & Marden NFU
3 Kanzi 65-70mm or
70-75mm
Richard Hochfeld Ltd
4 Cox 70-75mm Landseer Ltd
5 Cox 65-70mm Bayer Crop Science & South East Farmer
6 Rubens 65-70mm or
70-75mm
Norman Collett Ltd
7 Jazz 65-70mm or
70-75mm
Worldwide Fruit Ltd
8 Gala 65-70mm or
70-75mm
Briggs Equipment
9 Russet 65-70mm or
70-75mm
The Fruit Grower & Wilson Tarmac
10 Cameo 65-70mm or
70-75mm
Norman Collett Ltd
11 Braeburn 65-70mm or70-75mm Worldwide Fruit Ltd
12 Any other dessert see schedule New Spitalfields Market
13 Comice 70-75mm or
75-80mm or 80-85mm
Richard Hochfeld Ltd & Lambert and Foster
14 Conference 60-65mm or
65-70mm
County Produce Marketing Ltd
15 Concorde 60-65mm or
65-70mm or 70-75mm
Somersby Treafruit
16 Any other pear 70-75mm or
75-80mm or 80-85mm
NFU Sittingbourne
17 AOV culinary apples 80-90mm or 90-100 mm Port of Sheerness Ltd
18 Novice dessert apples   ICA Ltd & Frank Matthews Ltd
19 Novice pears   ICA Ltd
20 Under 26 dessert apples   Haynes Agricultural (Kent) Ltd & Day, Smith & Hunter
For 2009 Only The Bicentenary Bramley 95-105mm The Bramley Campaign
Top Fruit Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 90KB)

Long Term Storage Classes

Class No. Fruit Sponsor
21 Cox or any sport of Cox Maxicrop UK Ltd & STS
22 Bramley Yara UK Ltd & STS
Top Fruit Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 90KB)

Long Term Farm Stored (To be judged at the AGM March 2010)

Class No. Fruit Sponsor
23 Bramley ICA Ltd
24 AOV Dessert Apple except Cox Orange Pippin or any Sport of Cox STS Ltd
25 Cox’s Orange Pippin or Any Sport of Cox STS Ltd
26 Pears Scorpion Engineering Ltd

Soft Fruit

Class No. Fruit Variety Sponsor
30 Strawberry Any Summer fruiting Berry Gardens Ltd
31 Strawberry Any ever-bearer Berry Gardens Ltd
32 Raspberry Any F Edmed & Sons
33 Blackberry Any County Produce Marketing & MFSS
Soft Fruit, Cobnuts & Walnuts Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 77KB)

Apple Juice

Class No. Fruit Variety Sponsor
40 Blended Apple Juice Two or more named varieties Vigo Ltd
41 Single Variety   A & P Hill (Fruit) Ltd
42 Blended Juices Two or more types of any fruit which can be grown in the UK MFSS
Apple Juice Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 81KB)

Cobnut and Walnut

Class No. Fruit Sponsor
50 Kentish Cobnuts Holiday Inn
51 Cobnuts AOV Judith Norris Ltd & MFSS
The John Bardsley Tankard for the most meritorious Entry of Cobnuts
55 Walnuts Holiday Inn & Bennett Opie Ltd
Soft Fruit, Cobnuts & Walnuts Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 77KB)

Other Classes

Fruit Sponsor
Tastiest Apple The Fruit Grower
Five Heaviest Apples Channel Weighing
Five Heaviest Pears Chingford Fruit Packers
Tastiest Tomato Marks and Spencer Plc
Biggest Pumpkin Hadlow College
Matched Pair of Pumpkins Hadlow College
Heaviest, Biggest & Tastiest Competition Entry Form (PDF file, 85KB)

The National Fruit Show is organised by the Marden Fruit Show Society, registered charity number 259586.