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| Apple Smokehouse | Apple Pink Lady | Apple Clark's Seedling | Apple Arlet | Apple Discovery | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Large, 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 colour | White to Cream, pale yellow | White to Cream, pale yellow | White to Cream, pale yellow | ||
| Fruit size | Medium | Medium | Small | ||
| Fruit shape | Flat | Round | Flat | ||
Using | Smokehouse | Pink Lady | Clark's Seedling | Arlet | Discovery |
| Flavor | Good | Exceptional | Good | ||
| Flavour style | Sweet/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 | |
| Pollination | Flowering 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 | |||
| Problems | Scab - 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 origin | United States | Australia | United Kingdom | Switzerland | United Kingdom |
| Other qualities | Awards 1993 |