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Pomiferous
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Styre Wilding
Type: Cider
identification: Small, conic, angular and irregular. The glossy skin is lemon yellow, blushed red on the sun exposed face. The stem is very short and set in a deep russet ...
Su Rom’thi
Summer John
Type: Cider, Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained, firm and very juicy. Sweet?tart.
Summer Limbertwig
Type: Cider, Eating, Jelly
summary: This is the earliest ripening of the 50 or so limbertwig apple trees currently on record.
Synonyms: Weeping Limbertwig
Summer Rose
Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert
characteristics: The white flesh is fine-grained, tender, crisp and juicy. Sprightly and very sweet.
Synonyms: French Reinette, Glass Apple (this is also a synonym for Snell's Glass Apple ), Harvest Apple, ...
Suncrisp
Type: Cider, Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet,
Synonyms: Stark Suncrisp
Supreme Crab
Type: Cider, Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is firm, crisp. Sweet, juicy and aromatic
Synonyms: Grange Apple, Knight's New Golden Pippin
Sweet Alford
Type: Cider
summary: This British apple makes a vintage-quality, bittersweet cider. Beware however; this is a yellow skinned apple and the red skinned apple often passed off as a ...
Synonyms: Alfred, Sweet Alfred, Sweet Elford
brix: 12
sg: 1.05
tannins: 0.15
Sweet Coppin
Type: Cider, Juice
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft. Sweet, marginally tannic and slightly tart. Tends to brown heavily on exposure to air.
Synonyms: Sweet Copin
sg: 1.052
tannins: 0.14
Sweet Lading
Type: Cooking, Cider
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Somewhat dry, very sweet and almost no acidity. Keeps less than two months in cold storage.
Synonyms: Sweet Lading is also a synonym for the Brabant Bellefleur
Sweet Merlin
Type: Cider, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm. Dry, sweet and somewhat tart. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Merlin
Sweet Rusty Coat
Type: Cider
summary: Reputed to be one of the finest Gloucestershire cider apples.
Synonyms: Rusty Coat Sweet. Also Rusty Coat, but this is a generic name which, at one time ...
Sweet Winesap
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie
characteristics: Flesh is white, fine-grained, somewhat crisp, juicy. Very sweet.
Synonyms: Hendrick Sweet, Henrick Sweet, Henry Sweet, Ladies Sweet, Rose Sweet, Red Sweet ...
Swiss Limbertwig
Type: Cider, Eating, Pie
summary: One of about a dozen limbertwig varieties that thrived in the clay soils of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern United States through the 1800s, this one ...
brix: 13
sg: 1.05
Symes' Seedling
Type: Culinary, Cider, Pie
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, melting and juicy. Harold Taylor, in his 1945 edition of "The Apples of England," rates it has having a "pleasant faint scent" and ...
Synonyms: Symes
sg: 1.05
tannins: 2.1
Taliaferro
Type: Cider, Eating
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, very juicy and “with exquisite flavor.”
Synonyms: Robertson Apple, Robinson Apple,Taliafero, Tailiafero, Tallifero, Talifero, ...
Tardive de la Sarthe
