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Smith Seedling
characteristics: Yellowish flesh is fine?grained, crisp and juicy. Keeps well.
Lyons Seedling
origins: Originated in the 1800s as a chance seedling in the farmyard of Lyons' property at Ivanhoe, Virginia (U.S.A.).
Ballarat Seedling
summary: A highly regarded, large cooking apple developed in southeastern Australia.
Bowden's Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is white with greenish tinges, soft. Juicy and sweet sharp.
Brickley Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, firm, sweet and very flavourful. Keeps for four to five months in cold storage.
Burn’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, juicy and sprightly. Very sweet and aromatic. Keeps well in cold storage for two months.
Hibb’s Seedling
characteristics: Flesh is fine grained, crisp and melting. Juicy and sweet. Keeps two months in cold storage.
Dewdulip Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse?grained, firm. Sharp and flavourful.
Foster's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender and soft. Juicy, very acidic and vinous..
Lamb’s Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained and soft. Moderately sharp but mellows to a sweet, tender apple after about six weeks in storage.
Liddel's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white but tends to turn brown as soon as it is cut. Quite tart when first picked but sweetens with time. Keeps two months in cold storage.
Martin's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft, juicy and lightly sweet.
McGhee's Seedling
characteristics: Keeps six months in cold storage.
Rawley's Seedling
characteristics: Flesh is soft. Tastes very much like the Cox, but the tree tends to be hardier.
Reid’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white and sometimes stained red under the skin, coarse grained. Sweet with hints of strawberry,
Sowman's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is yellow with tinges of green, fine? grained, firm. Acid.
Tan Yard Seedling
origins: originating in the mountains of north Georgia and still sold by Lawson s Nursery of Ball Ground, Georgia
Warren's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, coarse?grained.
Weston's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream, coarse grained, firm. sharp
Hannan Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is coarse-grained, crisp. Sweet-sharp.
Dunn's Seedling
summary: This mid-season, Australian heritage apple is used mostly for pies and apple sauce and is becoming popular among cider makers.
Keener Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, crisp. Juicy, sweet, faintly tart and nutty.
Lord's Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is ?????, dense. NuttyAromatic. Does not keep well.
Moss's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Juicy and sweet, somewhat aromatic and favourful with a honeyed taste.
Pinner Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender and crisp. Juicy, sweet and brisk. Keeps up to four months in cold storage.
Potts' Seedling
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summary: A British cooking apple originating in the mid 1800s.
Steyne Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, tender and soft. Juicy and sweet, intensely aromatic and flavourful.
Symes' Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, melting and juicy. Harold Taylor, in his 1945 edition of "The Apples of England," rates it has having a "pleasant faint scent" and ...
Braintree Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Sweet with a hint of pineapple.
Brown’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is light yellow, fine grained, tender and very juicy. Brisk and sweet.
Coole’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is firm and crisp, sweet and juicy.
Cottenham Seedling
characteristics: The flish is white, firm and juicy. Quite tart.
Cowan’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is tender, juicy and sweet.
Hodge’s Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, crisp, juicy and sweet?sharp.
Dewdney's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white, moderately firm and very sharp. Mellows in storage.
Northland Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and crisp. Sharp
Peter’s Seedling
origins: A second seedling raised from an open pollinated Granny Smith raised by Deacon’s Nursery in Godshill, Isle of Wight (UK)
Proctor's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white and firm. Juicy and sweet sharp, aromatic.
Shinfield Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained, crisp. Sweet, slightly tart and richly flavoured.
Skinner's Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender. Juicy, and sweet-tart.
Tidicombe Seedling
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine textured, firm and crisp,Juicy and sweet, pleasantly tart, well flavoured and mildly aromatic.
Wadey’s Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, firm and chewy. Juicy and sweet
West View Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm. Dry, sweet-sharp. Lacking in flavour.
Dumelow's Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy and very sharp. Somewhat aromatic.
Staward's Seedling
summary: Sharp but lends itself well to cooked and baked dishes.
Ashdown Seedling
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summary: A seedling of the McIntosh, this apple ripens early and comes with juicy, sweet, strawberry flavours.
Belvoir Seedling
origins: Annie Elizabeth x Dumelow’s Seedling by W H Divers Head Gardener at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, UK, prior to 1935
Brown's Seedling
origins: Developed by Richard Brown of Stamford, Lincolnshire (U.K.) after the mid-1800s.
Burgess Seedling
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summary: Considered to be "indistinguishable" from Webb's Kitchen Russet by the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale. Please see Webb's Kitchen Russet .
Byfleet Seedling
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characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy, sharp and aromatic.
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