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characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet and pleasantly tart.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow with some light reddish staining. Crunchy. Juicy and sweet-sharp, refreshing.
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summary: Grown from a chance seedling, this crabapple has orange flesh and is sometimes listed as a red-flesh varietal.
summary: A good baking apple, great for pies, also used as a fresh-eating apple. First grown in Saskatchewan (Canada).
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summary: Rated by some as a moderately good tasting dessert apple, though extraordinarily handsome.
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summary: A large, attractive, sharp-flavoured cooking apple, favoured for apple sauce. In pies and tarts, the cooked slices turn lemon yellow.
summary: A British cooking apple found growing in the late 1800s in the Bedfordshire area.
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summary: When first harvested, this is at best a cooking apple with a mild flavour, smooth texture and a tendency to hold its shape. After several weeks in storage, it ...
summary: At one time, this Swiss apple was primarily considered a highly-rated cider apple, but now it is also appreciated as a cooking and fresh-eating apple.
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summary: A favoured cooking apple, holding its shape and texture well for pies, crumbles and crisps. In most areas where this variety is grown, it is encountered as a ...
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summary: This culinary apple was grown through the Loire Valley of France, but has become alarmingly scarce.
summary: A sweet-sharp French cider apple but also used for making a fragrant, lemon yellow sauce and it keeps its shape for making pies and tarts.
summary: An early cooking apple good for sauces and also makes a brisk juice.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured with some green stains, firm. Mild flavour. Sweet and slightly tart.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy. Sweet, sprightly and aromatic.
summary: A Mac-style apple but more hardy and disease resistant.
characteristics: Red flesh.
characteristics: The flesh is white when first picked, becoming yellowish in storage. Fine-grained, firm. Juicy, sweet and aromatic.
origins: Believed to have originated as an open-pollinated seedling of Baldwin . Raised by F.M. Benham of Petosky in Michigan.
summary: This listing is for the Berford Red apple. Please see RF: Burford Red Flesh for the red- fleshed variety (Burford).
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish with some red stains under the skin, fine grained. Very juicy, very sweet, refreshingly tart with a spicy flavour. Turns brown with ...
summary: Declined in popularity and grown primarily in heritage orchards.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, noticeably firm. Spicedy flavours.
summary: A handsome and flavourful, multi-purpose apple from the late 1700s, similar to the Stone and Blue Pearmain apples. Very hardy.
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summary: Often called Crow's Egg or Southern Crow's Egg, this tall, oddly shaped apple is an excellent fresh-eating variety that has been grown in the southeastern ...
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