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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and soft. Juicy, flavourful, brisk.
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summary: Most people find this apple too tart to eat fresh, but it is delicious and sweet when cooked as an apple sauce or pie. Generally, its foremost attribute is size ...
characteristics: Flesh is deep cream coloured. Sweet crip and juicy. Intensely aromatic. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, soft and chewy. Dry, moderately sweet, very sharp and only slightly bitter.
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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 creamy white, crisp and fine grained. Juicy with almost no tartness. Tastes very much like a Golden Delicious. Can be kept up to two months in cold ...
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summary: Dessert apple, also used for making juice, but it shines as a cider apple providing an intense sweet-sharp flavour and high specific gravity in the juice.
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characteristics: Flesh is white with tinges of green. Fine-grained, crisp, firm and juicy. Sweet-sharp. Intense fruity and nutty flavours.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, chewy with good aroma. Sweet, but dry with an intense flavour of cider. Keeps three months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh has a greenish tinge. Tender and juicy. Sweet?sharp. Keeps about two months in cold storage.
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summary: Originated in Europe during the 1600s and spread by monks on their travels, later by explorers and settlers in the new world. It was likely the pollen parent of ...
summary: A Golden-style, fresh-eating apple with columnar growth habit, bred at Canada's Summerland Research Station in the late 1900s.
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summary: An excellent heritage baking apple when picked under-ripe but also highly flavourful and sweet when left to fully ripen. This apple is traditionally used for ...
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characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow. Juicy, sweet?sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage.
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summary: A cooking apple that's great for sharp apple sauces. Also used for making cider.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, firm. tart
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish white, crisp, tender, juicy and sweet. Sprightly with a distinct pinapple flavour. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained and soft, somewhat mealy.
summary: An excellent eating apple from Maine in northeastern United States. Despite its quality, it was almost lost until a half dozen century-old trees were found in ...
characteristics: Sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage. Greenish yellow.
characteristics: The flesh is????????????. Sweet. Keeps for four months in cold storage.
characteristics: Flesh is white with green tinges. Sharp and very sweet. Keeps two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp, very juicy and sprightly.
characteristics: Flesh is pale yellow, tender, soft, juicy and sharp. Keeps for about two months in cold storage.
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characteristics: Flesh is juicy, crisp and tender with a distinct tart flavour. Tends to be sweet. Look for a spicy character in the flavour with just a hint of coriander, this ...
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summary: A cider apple that originated in France in 1875. Rated as a cider apple rich in sugar content and usually used for blending. Similar in shape and size to the ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, moderately fine grained and tender. Very juicy and sweet with only mild flavours. Ke three months in cold storage.
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