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Apple
Smokehouse 
Apple
Pink Lady 
Apple
Clark's Seedling 
Apple
Arlet 
Apple
Discovery 
SummaryLarge, flattish shape, yellow flushed and striped red. Flesh crisp, yellowish, moderately fine-grained. Fresh cider flavor. Very good quality cooking, eating, and baking apple. Keeps well through March.
One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.
An English culinary apple from the 1920s, uncertain origins. Widely known as Royal George.
A sweet mid-season dessert apple, developed in Switzerland and related to Golden Delicious.
A popular English early apple variety, and a good choice for the garden.

Identification

Smokehouse
Pink Lady
Clark's Seedling
Arlet
Discovery
Fruit colour
Red

Red

Flesh colourWhite to Cream, pale yellow
White to Cream, pale yellow


White to Cream, pale yellow
Fruit sizeMedium
Medium


Small
Fruit shapeFlat
Round


Flat

Using

Smokehouse
Pink Lady
Clark's Seedling
Arlet
Discovery
FlavorGood
Exceptional


Good
Flavour styleSweet/Sharp
Sweet/Sharp


Sweet/Sharp
Ripening period

Early season
Mid season

Use/Keeping
3 months or more

3 months or more
1 week
Cooking result




Growing

Smokehouse
Pink Lady
Clark's Seedling
Arlet
Discovery
Picking




Cropping
Good

Good
Good
Vigour
Average growth
Slightly large
Average growth
Slightly small
PollinationFlowering group 3
Self-sterile
Flowering group 2
Flowers Early season
Flowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 3
Self-sterile
Blossom frost-resistance
Gardening skill
Average


Very easy
ProblemsScab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Fireblight - Very susceptible
Woolly aphid - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Very susceptible
Scab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Very susceptible
Canker - Some resistance
Scab - Very resistant

Other

Smokehouse
Pink Lady
Clark's Seedling
Arlet
Discovery
Country of originUnited States
Australia
United Kingdom
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Other qualitiesAwards 1993