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Apple Sweet Bough | Apple Melrouge | Apple Ribston Pippin | Apple Pinova | Apple Dumelow's Seedling | |
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Summary | Medium-large green apple. Juicy, tender flesh, honeyed sweetness. | Redder sport of Melrose with more intense flavor. An excellent flavored dessert apple. Size is large and roundish flat. Very good for cooking. Stores well. | Famous Yorkshire apple variety, probably the parent of Cox's Orange Pippin. | An attractive yellow apple with a pink/orange flush. Crops heavily and stores well. Also known as Pinata. | One of the best cooking apples of the Victoria era. More correctly known as Dumeller's Seedling. |
Identification | Sweet Bough | Melrouge | Ribston Pippin | Pinova | Dumelow's Seedling |
Fruit colour | Red / Orange flush | Yellow / Gold | |||
Flesh colour | White to Cream, pale yellow | White to Cream, pale yellow | |||
Fruit size | Medium | Medium | |||
Fruit shape | Short-round-conical | Round-conical | |||
Using | Sweet Bough | Melrouge | Ribston Pippin | Pinova | Dumelow's Seedling |
Flavor | Exceptional | Very good | Good | ||
Flavour style | Aromatic | Sweeter | Sharper | ||
Ripening period | Mid season | Mid season | Mid-Late season | ||
Use/Keeping | 3 months or more | 3 months or more | |||
Cooking result | Puree | ||||
Growing | Sweet Bough | Melrouge | Ribston Pippin | Pinova | Dumelow's Seedling |
Picking | |||||
Cropping | Heavy | ||||
Vigour | Average growth | Average growth | Slightly large | ||
Pollination | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile Blossom frost-resistance | ||
Gardening skill | Average | ||||
Problems | Canker - Some resistance Scab - Some resistance Mildew - Some susceptibility | ||||
Other | Sweet Bough | Melrouge | Ribston Pippin | Pinova | Dumelow's Seedling |
Country of origin | United Kingdom | Germany | United Kingdom | ||
Other qualities | Awards 1993 | Awards 1993 |