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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, sweet?tart and spicy. Keeps well in cold storage for five months.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained. Juicy, spicy, slightly sweet-tart.
characteristics: Flesh is firm and chewy, reminiscent of strawberries. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
summary: Eaten out of hand after some weeks in storage. At harvest, it is primarily a cooking apple which produces a brisk, yellow sauce. Also used in cider making.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, soft. Juicy, flavourful. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, soft. Sweet sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage.
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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.
characteristics: The flesh is white stained red next to the skin. Aromatic. Full sharp cider apple.
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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 ...
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summary: A highly-rated French or British culinary apple that is very aromatic when cooked and makes a sweet-sharp, flavourful apple sauce.
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summary: Used exclusively for the production of hard cider. Far too bitter for other purposes. Nevertheless it is regarded as a vintage cider variety, both in its native ...
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summary: An excellent dessert apple, well flavoured and sweet, that originated in Holland sometime during the 1700s. Also known as Aagt.
summary: Large, lemon yellow. Prominent apple odour.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine?grained, very tender, Sweet?sharp and juicy. Somewhat bland.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, moderately fine-grained. Juicy and sweet with a pleasant tartness. Aromatic. Tends to brown slightly on exposure to air.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy, sweet with a mild honeyed pear flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, somewhat soft. Juicy, sharp with a lemony aroma. Keeps three months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm. Juicy, moderately sweet, aromatic. Keeps ups to five months in cold storage.
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summary: Either a seedling or mutation of Rome Beauty .
characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, firm, coarse textured, crisp and juicy. Brisk and reminiscent of white wine. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is ????????? and soft. Sweet. Keeps two months in cold storage but tends to deteriorate fairly quickly thereafter.
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characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and fine textured, somewhat juicy. Sharp and fruity. Mild flavoured.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, firm, crunchy and juicy. Sweet-sharp flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is ?????????????, coarse grained, firm and crisp. somewhat bitter.
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characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, firm, juicy and sweet. Aromatic.
summary: This all-purpose Irish heritage apple is highly regarded for fresh-eating and for making baked goods and is also well favoured as a cider apple.
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characteristics: The flesh is white with a greenish tinge and stained red under the skin. Soft, crisp, juicy and sweet-tart with raspberry flavours ripening to red currant.
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