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summary: This large cooking apple from England's East Midlands ripens late season makes a fine, lemon yellow, tart sauce.
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine grained and somewhat sharp.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and sweet?tart.
summary: A mutation of Double Red Jonathan found in 1968. Matures one week earlier than the Double Red.
characteristics: The flesh is white. Tender, juicy and tart.
characteristics: The flesh is white, very tender and sprightly.
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summary: A highly coloured mutation of Summer Champion developed by Merle Lucus at Green Forest, Arkansas (U.S.A.) See Summer Champion.
origins: Specifically bred by Liz Copas and Ray Williams at the Long Ashton Research Station in Somerset (U.K.) to provide England's commercial cider industry with a ...
characteristics: Sweet with honeyed flavours and a light touch of tartness.
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summary: Bred as a mid-season Cortland-style apple that is ready for harvest about a month earlier than the regular Cortland . It is not, as has been suggested, a mutation ...
summary: A chance seedling that emerged in the the northern panhandle of West Virginia a year or two after the Golden Delicious . Though similar, it is listed as a distinct variety.
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characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp and juicy. Tangy and brisk.
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characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained, tender and juicy. Sprightly and aromatic, pear flavours.
characteristics: Cream coloured flesh. Firm, very juicy and brisk. A balsamic flavour.
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summary: Very similar to the McIntosh apple in appearance and flavours, but ripens more than a month earlier. Sweet with a classic Mac flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, juicy, somewhat brisk and aromatic. Keeps for about two months in cold storage.
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