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| Variety/Cultivar | Fruit Type | Fruit Description | Production Notes | Disease Susceptibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earlise, also called Rivedel | Cherry | Average to large fruit, slightly heart-shaped, dark crimson, excellent sweet flavour, and nice firm fruit. | Slightly earlier cherry than Early Burlat but tends to consistently produce more fruit. Heavy cropping can result in smaller fruit. | Can be susceptible to cracking near harvest, but not as susceptible as Early Burlat. |
| Earlisweet | Plum | Moderately resistant to bacterial spot. | ||
| Early Burlat | Cherry | Large, red cherry, short stem, good flavour. | Good cropper, very productive. | Susceptibility to cracking |
| Early O'Henry | Peach | A rounded, well-coloured freestone peach with dark red skin and juicy yellow flesh. Medium sized fruit. | ||
| Early Rivers | Nectarine | Very early heritage variety of white flesh nectarine. Fruit tends to be large, and is quite thin-skinned, making this nectarine (like Goldmine) very vulnerable to weather, bruising and random damage. However flavour is excellent (in an old fashioned way) and fruit is juicy, if ripened properly on tree. Freestone. | Reliable and heavy bearer. | Susceptible to brown rot |
| Early Rivers | Cherry | Dark red, heart shaped cherry, soft, very juicy, sweet. Small stone | Good cropper, large, vigorous tree | Some resistance to splitting. |
| Egremont Russet | Apple | Spur bearer | Moderately resistant to black spot (apple scab) | |
| Ein Shemer | Apple | Small, sweet-tasting greenish yellow apples, a bit similar to a Golden Delicious. | Heavy bearer but the fruit tends to be small, so needs heavy thinning. Grows well in USDA zones 5 to 9. | Susceptible to black spot (apple scab), susceptible to Alternaria |
| Elberta | Peach | Clingstone peach, with firm yellow flesh. Skin is quite furry, yellow background, with a mottled red blush when the fruit is ripe. | Grows in zones 5-9 | |
| Eldorado | Pear | Pyrus communis (European pear) | Moderately resistant to pear blast (Pseudomonas syringae), susceptible to fire blight. | |
| Elstar, Red Elstar | Apple | A medium-sized orangey-red apple with a yellow background. White flesh, crispy texture. very sweet but is also tart and is sometimes used for cooking. Especially good for making apple sauce due to its soft texture. | Spur bearer. | Has been shown to be moderately resistant to black spot, so suits climates with high rainfall. |
| Empire | Apple | Partial spur and partial tip bearer. | Can be prone to get bitter rot in warm and humid conditions. | |
| Empress | Cherry | Dark red, firm cherry with good flavour. Medium to large, with medium length stem | Crops reliably, though fruit can get smaller due to heavy crops as tree ages. | |
| Esopus Spitzenberg | Apple | Grows in zones 3-9 | Very resistant to black spot (apple scab) | |
| Fairlane | Nectarine | Medium to large fruit, round with a 50-70% with a slight striped mottling over a yellow background colour. Flesh is firm and yellow, with a good (but not fantastic) flavour. This is a clingstone nectarine with a slightly fibrous texture. | A good late nectarine if crop is adequate. Summer pruning will help with best development of skin colour. Normally a good cropper than needs thinning. | None known |