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Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Apples with the use of cider
Summer John
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained, firm and very juicy. Sweet?tart.
Summer Limbertwig
summary: This is the earliest ripening of the 50 or so limbertwig apple trees currently on record.
Summer Rose
2
characteristics: The white flesh is fine-grained, tender, crisp and juicy. Sprightly and very sweet.
Sunburn
2
summary: This is one of several apples developed by F.W. Thorrington of Hornchurch, Essex (U.K.) during the early 1900s.
Suncrisp
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet,
Supreme Crab
characteristics: The flesh is firm, crisp. Sweet, juicy and aromatic
Sweet Alford
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 ...
Sweet Bough
1
summary: A sweet summer eating apple that dates back to the early 1800s.
Sweet Coppin
2
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft. Sweet, marginally tannic and slightly tart. Browns heavily on exposure to air.
Sweet Delicious
1
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, firm. sweet and aromatic.
Sweet Lading
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Somewhat dry, very sweet and almost no acidity. Keeps less than two months in cold storage.
Sweet Merlin
1
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm. Dry, sweet and somewhat tart. Aromatic.
Sweet Rusty Coat
summary: Reputed to be one of the finest Gloucestershire cider apples.
Sweet Winesap
characteristics: Flesh is white, fine-grained, somewhat crisp, juicy. Very sweet.
Swiss Limbertwig
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 ...
Symes' Seedling
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 ...
Taliaferro
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, very juicy and “with exquisite flavor.”
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