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  • Lady apple

    Creamy yellow and crimson. Flesh white, crisp and juicy. Highly aromatic. Also used in making Christmas wreaths and garlands.
  • Lady Sudeley apple

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    A well-known and attractive English early-season apple from the late Victorian era.
  • Lady Williams apple

    An attractive red flushed Australian apple of uncertain parentage, but with excellent keeping qualities.
  • Lakeland apple

    Medium sized fruit dark red striped. Flesh is yellow sometimes slightly tinged with red. Fine textured, juicy, and mildly acid. Excellent for pies and sauce. Good all-purpose apple. Good keeper, keeping until December.
  • Lamb Abbey Pearmain apple

    Small and intensely flavored with a hint of pineapple
  • Lane's Prince Albert apple

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    A classic Victorian English cooking apple, and remains a popular garden variety.
  • Late Harrison apple

    Medium in size and round to oblong in shape, the yellow skin has black dots, and the yellow flesh is coarse and dry
  • Laxton's Fortune apple

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    A popular English Cox-style variety, with a sweeter flavour and easier to grow, raised by the famous Laxton Bros. nursery in Bedford, UK.
  • Laxton's Superb apple

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    The definitive late Victorian dessert apple, firm, Cox-style but sweeter, understated but very "more-ish".
  • Leather Coat apple

    Medium, golden-yellow skin covered with russeting. Sweet-sharp intense flavor.
  • Lemon Pippin apple

    Good for drying. Small, yellow dotted fruit with greenish-white, crisp, acid flesh.
  • Liberty apple

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    Sounds like an heirloom variety, but actually a modern American apple variety, developed specifically for disease resistance.
  • Limbertwig apple

    Medium size and deep or dull red color. Flesh is yellowish, hard, aromatic.
  • Limelight apple

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    Developed by UK apple breeder H. Ermen, based on the Greensleeves apple from East Malling Research Station.
  • Lindamac apple

    One hundred percent red, otherwise same as McIntosh.
  • Lobo apple

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    A McIntosh-style apple from Canada, generally believed to be better all-round than its parent.
  • Lodi apple

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    An attractive yellow early-season apple with a sharp flavor, best used for cooking.
  • Lombart's Calville apple

    Medium-large yellow fruit. Sweet, juicy, rich flavor.
  • Lord Derby apple

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    A popular good-quality English cooking apple of the Victorian era.
  • Lord Hindlip apple

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    A versatile English dessert variety from the late Victorian era, and one of the longest-keeping apples.
  • Lord Lambourne apple

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    Popular garden variety, many uses, good balance of sweet and sharp
  • Lubsk Queen apple

    White porcelain-like skin with splashes and blushes of bright pink and red. Firm, tart snow-white flesh. Brisk flavor.
  • Lyman's Large Summer apple

    Large, green fruit ripens yellow. Firm, crisp, and juicy.

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