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  • Haas apple

    Green-yellow ribbed fruit with red stripes. Tender white flesh sometimes stained red. Qunce-like texture.
  • Hampshire apple

    Fruits are large and uniformly round to oblate with 100% red blush with little striping. Skin is thin and tough, flesh creamy white, slow to discolor. Subacid, yet mildly sweet, sprightly, good aromatics. Has excellent storage life.
  • hampshire beauty apple

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    A synonym for Beauty of Hampshire.
  • Haralred apple

    Selection of Red Haralson. Earlier, redder, and sweeter, without the common russeting problem many Haralsons have. Juicy, tart, firm flesh. Good keeper.
  • Haralson apple

    Good baking, eating and cider apple. Flesh is crisp, juicy, firm. Mildly tart flavor, not acid. Holds its shape and texture in baking. Retains good flavor in keeping.
  • Harcourt apple

    Fair quality.
  • Harry Masters Jersey apple

    A traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
  • Hauer Pippin apple

    Large, crisp, hard, juicy, tasty, tart apple
  • Hauxapfel apple

    Known as a cider apple, very good for cooking and baking. Excellent eating for those who enjoy a crisp, tart apple. Medium to large fruit. Red stripes over green skin.
  • Hawaii apple

    Gourmet dessert apple with a flavor and aroma like pineapple. Large, yellow fruit with light pinkish orange striping gives overall orange appearance. Exceptionally sweet flavor is largely influenced by Gravenstein.
  • Hawkeye Delicious apple

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    This is the original Delicious, the one that earned the name. This genuine original strain of the world's most widely grown apple has never been improved on as far as eating quality is concerned, superior to all spur types.
  • Hawley apple

    Large fruit with smooth, waxy skin, greenish yellow in color with an inconspicuous brown blush.   Russet dots and flecks cover most of the surface, especially toward the cavity and the stem is about 3/4" long in a wide, deep cavity. The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, soft, juicy and subacid.
  • Hayne's Seedling apple

    Excellent quality and a fine keeper. Green shading to pale yellow when ripe.
  • Hazen apple

    Large round dark red fruit. Greenish yellow, medium firm, juicy, very sweet flesh; mildly subacid flavor. Pleasant for eating, good dessert and cooking apple.
  • Henry Clay apple

    Yellow and red fruit is similar to Yellow Transparent. Medium size, shaped flat to intermediate. Ribbed at eye and on the body, often asymmetric. Skin green with pinkish orange flush, russet dots and occasional russet patches. Flesh is soft, juicy, greenish white, flavor slightly acid.
  • Herefordshire Redstreak apple

    An old English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.
  • Herefordshire Russet apple

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    A modern russet with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour, could displace Egremont Russet
  • Herrings Pippin apple

    Excellent eating and cooking apple. Fruit large, deep green, colored crimson on one side. Flesh crisp but tender when ripe. Spicy flavor, pleasing aroma.
  • Hewes Crab apple

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    A popular crab-apple, also widely known as Virginia Crab, and producing a high-quality cider juice.
  • Heyer 12 apple

    Green to yellow, medium sized fruit. Soft, tart, juicy cooking apple.
  • Heyer 20 apple

    Medium to medium large yellowish green apple with a crisp, juicy, sweet flavor.
  • Hidden Rose apple

    A synonym for Aerlies Red Flesh.
  • Hokuto apple

    Fruit is large, round in shape with red stripes on a yellowish background. Pale yellow flesh with high sugar and excellent flavor.
  • Holiday apple

    High quality fine flavored eating apple. It has inherited the good eating qualities of it's parents with the rich flavor of Jonathan and the white juicy flesh of Macoun. Shiny bright red over yellow skin with a prominent dotting.
  • Holland Pippin apple

    A synonym for Broad-eyed pippin.
  • Holly apple

    Large outstandingly beautiful apple has the color of the holly berry. Its shape is conic, sometimes having a blockish appearance. The glossy skin is evenly blushed with pinkish to deep, solid red. The creamy white flesh is mild in flavor, juicy and quite sweet, similar to Delicious. It keeps well until January. Fruit hangs well on the tree.
  • Holstein apple

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    Noted for its excellent orange-yellow juice, fairly soft, slight pineapple flavour
  • Honey Pippin apple

    An English Cox-style apple, said to have a "honeyed" flavour.
  • Honeycrisp apple

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    Sometimes marketed as Honey Crisp, this is a crisp, and predomoninantly sweet, modern variety from the USA. It was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates, and is one of the most cold-hardy of apple varieties.
  • Honeygold apple

    Hardy substitute for Golden Delicious developed especially for cold northern areas. Golden Delicious flavor, Haralson hardiness. Medium to large golden to greenish fruit with very smooth finish and reddish bronze blush. Flavor is sweeter and more bland than Golden Delicious. High quality. Superior storage qualities.
  • Hoople's Antique Gold apple

    Stripes against a yellow background, sometimes russeted, medium to large size with russeting. Rich, lightly aromatic flavor, juicy sweet flesh with excellent flavor.
  • Horneburger Pancake apple

    A synonym for Horneburger Pfannkuchen.
  • Horneburger Pfannkuchen apple

    A good quality late-season German culinary apple.
  • Horse apple

    Greenish yellow in color usually with a pink blush. The fruit is medium to large. It is very tart until fully ripened. Firm white flesh white stained red. A little tough, sprightly, subacid, aromatic.
  • Howgate Wonder apple

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    Very large cooker, not great flavour when cooked but excellent sharp juice
  • Hubbardston Nonesuch apple

    Large, rugged fruit with red skin, highlight of gold. Flesh hard, crisp yet fine-grained. Sprightly and rich flavor, becoming sweeter when fully ripe.
  • Hudson's Golden Gem apple

    Excellent eating apple. Large conical and elongated fruit. Dull yellow russet skin. Crisp, sugary flesh with nutty flavor.
  • Hunt Russet apple

    Fruit medium sized, golden russet with broken patches of smooth bright red on the cheek. It is quite attractive for a russet apple, excellent in quality and a good keeper. Known to keep in root cellars over a year.
  • Hunthouse apple

    A particularly hardy and productive old cooking apple, originating from the north east coast of Yorkshire.
  • Hyslop Crab apple

    Good for jelly and cider. Large, 2+ inch, brilliant red or purple fruit with blue bloom. Firm yellow flesh is juicy when first ripe then rapidly becomes mealy. Subacid and astringent flavor.

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