Pomona Britannica
The NYPL Digital Gallery has this 'collection of the most esteemed fruits at present cultivated' in Britain from 1812 by George Brookshaw. They certainly had a better choice of esteemed fruits in those days - sixteen varieties of gooseberry:
Hoboy, chili and Scarlet-flesh pine strawberries:
The peachiest peaches, from the Black Peach of Montreal to La Teton de Venus and Violette Hative:
Cloth of Gold, White gage and Blue gages along with the green:
and the weirdest apples, from Norfolk Paradise to Spitsburgh Pippins to Kirk's Scarlet Admirable and Sullenworth Rennet:
Bring back Bigg's Nonsuch! That's what I say.