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summary: Raised by Charles Ross, head-gardener at the Welford Park Gardens in Newbury, Berkshire (U.K.) during the early 1900s. It was likely raised from one of many ...
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Firm and very sweet with a melon flavour.
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.
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characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, tender and soft. Sweet, brisk and very fruity.
characteristics: The flesh has a greenish tinge. Tender and juicy. Sweet?sharp. Keeps about two months in cold storage.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, crisp and firm. Juicy and very sweet, tangy and intensely flavoured with mellon highlights.
origins: — Ed Gould Golden x Selection PRI 1956, ISF, Trento, Italy
summary: A mutation of Golden Delicious . Yellow with a bright orange blush covering about half of the apple on the sun exposed face. Ready for harvest one week earlier than Golden ...
summary: A mutation of Golden Delicious Kon B identified in 2006 in the Southern Tyrol region of Italy.
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 ...
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characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour.
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identification: Medium size, round conic. Base colour is green maturing to golden yellow over which is a brownish red blush on the sun-exposed face. The stem is long and ...
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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 ...
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, medium fine-grained. Sweet with balanced tartness and good aroma. Brix 12.8
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy and sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage.
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summary: While it is widely used as a fresh-eating apple, it also makes wonderful dried apple rings and a good choice for the flavour component and enhanced fermentation ...
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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characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh. Crisp and fine textured. Strong cider flavour. Sharp, juicy and astringent.
summary: A mutation of Golden Delicious . Found at Sundale Orchards outside Roosevelt, Washington (U.S.A.). Bears fruit on spurs.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, firm and juice with good aromatics. Very sweet, virtually no acid. Keeps two months in cold storage.
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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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