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characteristics: The flesh is white, tender and juicy. Somewhat bland. Cold Storages:Up to two months.
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 ...
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy-yellow, crisp and sweet-tart. Nutty flavour.
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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, ...
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow with red stains next to the skin. Tender, fine-grained and juicy
characteristics: The flesh is very pale yellowish. Juicy and sweet with just a hint of tartness. Keeps for four months in cold storage.
characteristics: White flesh, crisp and juicy with a sweet?tart taste. Keeps for three months in cold storage
summary: This Irish apple is a good culinary variety, but it also become a good dessert apple when conditions are right.
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.
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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 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: Either a seedling or mutation of Rome Beauty .
characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, firm, coarse textured, crisp and juicy. Brisk and reminiscent of white wine. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
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summary: A good eating apple from Australia, also makes excellent apple pies.
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summary: An ancient and wonderfully useful, fragrant apple for pies, sauces, baked goods as well as cider. Tasty apple rings.
summary: An excellent summer eating apple developed at the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station in New York.
characteristics: Flesh is pale cream coloured, soft and juicy. Somewhat acidic.
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summary: Traditionally this bell-shaped apple is an essential ingredient used by European bakers for making apple strudel.
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summary: Most people find this apple too tart to eat fresh, but it is delicious and sweet when cooked as an apple sauce or pie. Generally, its foremost attribute is size ...
summary: A red mutation of Golden Reinette . Originated in The Netherlands.
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characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, tender and soft. Sweet, brisk and very fruity.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, crisp and firm. Juicy and very sweet, tangy and intensely flavoured with mellon highlights.
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characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour.
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summary: Originated in Europe during the 1600s and spread by monks on their travels, later by explorers and settlers in the new world. It was likely the pollen parent of ...
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summary: While it is widely used as a fresh-eating apple, it also makes wonderful dried apple rings and a good choice for the flavour component and enhanced fermentation ...
summary: A Golden-style, fresh-eating apple with columnar growth habit, bred at Canada's Summerland Research Station in the late 1900s.
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summary: An excellent heritage baking apple when picked under-ripe but also highly flavourful and sweet when left to fully ripen. This apple is traditionally used for ...
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