characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained, brisk and mild-flavoured.

characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, sharp, mild flavour.

summary: Dating back to the 1700s, this apple is favoured for making apple pies when picked slightly under-ripe or allowed to ripen fully for its excellent flavours and ...

characteristics: The flesh is white with tinges of yellow. Fine-grained. tender and juicy. Aromatic and slightly brisk. Browns quickly when exposed to air.

summary: Originally grown from seed by early settlers along the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada during the early 1700s, this apple is excellent for fresh eating, ...

summary: Similar to the Jonathan in many respects and, while it ripens about the same time, it tends to colour up earlier.

summary: This Irish apple is a good culinary variety, but it also become a good dessert apple when conditions are right.

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine-grained, crisp and juicy, sweet-tart. Has a distinct aniseed flavour.

characteristics: The flesh is yelllowish, crisp. Juicy sharp astringent.

characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and somewhat mealy. Very juicy and sweet, lightly acidic.

summary: Eaten out of hand after some weeks in storage. At harvest, it is primarily a cooking apple which produces a brisk, yellow sauce. Also used in cider making.

summary: Please see Ribston Pippin

summary: Resembles the Red Delicious in shape but the taste favours the McIntosh.

summary: Freedom shows excellent resistance to scab and most other diseases and produces a heavy fruit load of apples that favoured for fresh eating as well as pies and ...

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, moderately firm, fine-grained, Very juicy, sweet-tart with a pronounced pineapple flavour and spicy. High Vitamin C content.

summary: A highly-rated French or British culinary apple that is very aromatic when cooked and makes a sweet-sharp, flavourful apple sauce.

summary: Large, lemon yellow. Prominent apple odour.

origins: This as-yet non-trademarked variety is an early apple that is a hybrid of Jersey Mac x Gala . A product of the Swiss breeding program.

summary: Either a seedling or mutation of Rome Beauty .

summary: Named for its unusually thin and long stem stem, these apples originated in the Piedmonts region of northwestern Italy. They're favoured for their fine and ...

summary: Please see Rhode Island Greening

summary: A good eating apple from Australia, also makes excellent apple pies.

summary: An ancient and wonderfully useful, fragrant apple for pies, sauces, baked goods as well as cider. Tasty apple rings.

summary: This multipurpose, red-fleshed apple adds sharpness to cider, produces excellent apple jelly and its large, pink blossoms are spectacular.

summary: An excellent summer eating apple developed at the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station in New York.

characteristics: The flesh is greenish, crisp and firm. Juicy and somewhat tart. Fruity flavour.

summary: A hardy, seedling of McIntosh grown in Canada during the mid-1900s. Difficult to find as both fruit and scion wood.

characteristics: The flesh is white with a light green tinge, somewhat coarse grained. Very juicy and sweet, slighly tart, mildly spicy, aromatic. Tends to have grassy flavours ...

summary: This all-purpose Irish heritage apple is highly regarded for fresh-eating and for making baked goods and is also well favoured as a cider apple.

summary: Traditionally this bell-shaped apple is an essential ingredient used by European bakers for making apple strudel.