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characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.
summary: An excellent apple eaten out of hand, it is also used to make pies and sauce and makes a flavourful apple juice.
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summary: A good, sweet-tart eating apple if fully ripened on the tree. However, it is most commonly used green as a cooking apple for apple pies and sauce, but creates a ...
characteristics: Sharp. Keeps for three months in cold storage. Greenish yellow.
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characteristics: Flesh is cream in colour and coarse textured to a degree. Crisp, juicy, sweet-tart and honeyed. The apple should be used fairly soon after harvest since it ...
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summary: A tangy cooking and cider apple from the British Isles. Goes well with soft cheeses.
characteristics: Flesh is creamy yellow, somewhat coarse in texture, but firm. Juicy with a good sweet-tart balance. Hints of pear and banana and, to some people, a fermented ...
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, fine?grained and tender. Somewhat juicy and sweet, nutty. Almost no acidity. Keeps three months in cold storage.
summary: This thin-skinned eating apple comes from the South Dakota region of the U.S.A. in the early 1900s and is ideal for fresh eating as well as for pies and tarts. ...
summary: Once grown extensively in the southern United States as an excellent summer apple for fresh eating, pies and apple sauce, but pre-empted in the mid-1900 by ...
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characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and soft. Very juicy and sweet and somewhat tart to very tart.
characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained. Firm and dry. Sweet and flavourful. Brisk.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained. Juicy and sweet-tart, but the fruit needs to be matured for up to two months in storage to achieve its full, rich ...
summary: Found as a limb mutation of Minnesota 90 in 1982 by Louis Lautz in his orchard near La Crescent, Minnesota (U.S.A.). Ripens up to seven days earlier and with a solid ...
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft. Sharp.
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summary: Please see Yellow Transparent
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm, and crunchy. Juicy, sweet tart and spicy with a hint of cloves.
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summary: Developed in the Great Plains of the north-central United States, this late-summer apple grows on a naturally dwarfing tree, topping out at five metres or less.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Juicy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
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summary: One of several columnar apples developed by the East Malling Institute of Horticultural Research, the Hercules apple forms a compact stem along which the fruit ...
characteristics: Flesh is white with green tinges. Fine grained, firm and crisp, brisk.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, tender and dry. Very sweet. Does not keep well.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Sharp. Keeps three months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, crisp, juicy and sweet?sharp.
summary: It may have been the name that curtailed this apple's rise to fame, but it is a fine tasting, very sweet baking and fresh-eating cultivar.
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characteristics: Distinctly cream-coloured flesh, coarse-grained, juicy and noticeably aromatic, typically with pineapple flavours. Excellent sugar/acid balance. Produces ...
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summary: This hardy Golden Delicious-style apple was developed by the University of Minnesota in the mid-1900s and ranks high for flavour and long storage.
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