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characteristics: White flesh, crisp and juicy with a sweet?tart taste. Keeps for three months in cold storage
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Fine-grained, firm. Aromatic bittersweet with a touch of tartness. Flavour improves in storage.
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summary: A mutation of Laxton’s Fortune . More highly coloured. Found in 1960 at Holmlea Farms near Elverland, Faversham, Kent (U.K.)
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine-grained, crisp and juicy, sweet-tart. Has a distinct aniseed flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, very tender, crisp and juicy.
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained. Juicy, spicy, slightly sweet-tart.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, medium firm, sweet and low in acid. Buttery and perfumed. Resistant to bruising.
summary: This variety of Spitzenburg grown along the Flushing Creek in the same area and around the same time as the Esopus Spitzenburg which it closely resembles. It ...
summary: A good dual purpose apple, likely grown Holland during the mid-1700s.
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.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy and sweet. Somewhat brisk and richly flavoured. Keeps well in cold storage for almost four months.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm and crisp. Juicy and somewhat astringent.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, juicy and well flavoured. Keeps in cold storage for about two months.
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characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellowish, fine-grained, firm. Juicy and sweet, slightly tart and aromatic.
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summary: This is one of several apples developed by Francis Thorrington of Hornchurch, Essex, during the early 1900s.
summary: Resembles the Red Delicious in shape but the taste favours the McIntosh.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, tender and crisp. Juicy and aromatic. Keeps for about two months in cold storage.
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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 ...
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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.
characteristics: Crisp and juicy. Sweet with a mild tartness. Aromatic.
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characteristics: The flesh is white and crisp. Very sweet and nutty flavour with distinct hints of honey, pear and cinnamon. Anise flavours develop the longer it hangs on the ...
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summary: An excellent dessert apple, well flavoured and sweet, that originated in Holland sometime during the 1700s. Also known as Aagt.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, crisp, juicy and brisk. Keeps in cold storage for about two months.
characteristics: The flesh is tender, juicy and sweet.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, moderately fine-grained. Juicy and sweet with a pleasant tartness. Aromatic. Tends to brown slightly on exposure to air.
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