summary: Perpetually high-ranking in tasting competitions, the Spitz is considered excellent for eating fresh as well as cooking. Great for apple pie. Try fresh slices ...

summary: California-bred in the mid-1900s by Albert Etter, this tree produces large, golden-yellow fruit which is favoured for fresh eating, cooking and making cider. ...

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained, brisk and mild-flavoured.

summary: These cooking apples grow big. Sometimes as big as 15 centimetres in diameter.

characteristics: The skin is cream-coloured flesh is sweet, crunchy and juicy. Sweet-sharp at harvest, it mellows in storage, becoming less crunchy and sweeter. Fruity flavour ...

summary: Grown throughout continental Europe during the Middle Ages, this reddish russet apple is said to have medicinal properties. It is most widely used for ...

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Fine-grained, firm. Aromatic bittersweet with a touch of tartness. Flavour improves in storage.

summary: This is one of several apples developed by Francis Thorrington of Hornchurch, Essex, during the early 1900s.

summary: Resembles the Red Delicious in shape but the taste favours the McIntosh.

summary: Freedom shows excellent resistance to scab and most other diseases and produces a heavy fruit load of apples that favoured for fresh eating as well as pies and ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, moderately firm, fine-grained, Very juicy, sweet-tart with a pronounced pineapple flavour and spicy. High Vitamin C content.

characteristics: The flesh is white and crisp. Very sweet and nutty flavour with distinct hints of honey, pear and cinnamon. Anise flavours develop the longer it hangs on the ...

summary: Please see Tohoku 7

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy, sweet with a mild honeyed pear flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is pale green, fine-grained and firm. Sweet, very tart.

summary: Often confused with Gala because of its trade name -- GalaSupreme -- but this is actually a chance seedling of Delicious and similar in many ways to that ...

summary: Named for its unusually thin and long stem stem, these apples originated in the Piedmonts region of northwestern Italy. They're favoured for their fine and ...

characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, fine-grained and juicy with a sweet-tart, spicy flavour and refreshing aroma. Continues to mature and become sweeter over six weeks ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Fine-grained, crisp, firm and sweet-tart. Aromatic. Continues to develop flavour and sweetness in storage.

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, soft and chewy. Dry, moderately sweet, very sharp and only slightly bitter.

summary: A very sweet and somewhat spicy apple found growing wild in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S.A., in the early 1900s. Now one of the best known and ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Firm and very sweet with a melon flavour.

summary: This American heritage apple is rated as being excellent for eating out of hand and also used for cider. Nevertheless it almost disappeared in the early 1900s ...

characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour.

characteristics: Crisp and tart

summary: May be the same apple as Johnson's Keeper Johnson Keeper //Thought to have been lost.

characteristics: The flesh is white, somewhat dry and coarse-grained. Juicy with a fruity flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, medium-grained, crisp and crunchy. Juicy with a tart-sweet, honeyed taste. The flesh turns brown as it oxidizes, albeit slowly.

summary: A weeping tree found growing in Britain during the mid-1900s. Still obtainable from select nurseries in Britain dealing in heritage varieties.

characteristics: The flesh is a deep cream colour, fine-grained, firm and chewy. Dry and sweet-sharp with an intense nutty flavour and hints of lemon drops.