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Cherry
Noir de Guben 
Apple
Keswick Codlin 
Apple
Autumn Gold 
Apple
Esopus Spitzenburg 
Apple
Beauty of Bath 
SummaryRound-oblong. Very firm, very good flavour, juicy, good to very good quality. Stone medium, not free.
An old but ever-popular early-season English cooking apple.
Bright red blush over yellow-green. Keeps better than Golden Delicious.
One of the great American apple varieties, thought to be Thomas Jefferson's favourite. Noted for its spicy flavour, and for its susceptibility to any and every disease afflicting apples.
A popular English garden apple from the Victorian era, one of the first to ripen.

Identification

Noir de Guben
Keswick Codlin
Autumn Gold
Esopus Spitzenburg
Beauty of Bath
Fruit colour


Red / Orange flush
Red / Green
Flesh colour


White to Cream, pale yellow

Fruit size


Variable

Fruit shape


Round-conical

Using

Noir de Guben
Keswick Codlin
Autumn Gold
Esopus Spitzenburg
Beauty of Bath
Flavor


Exceptional
Average
Flavour style


Sweeter
Sharper
Ripening periodEarly season
Early-Mid season

Mid-Late season
Mid season
Use/Keeping


3 months or more
Does not keep
Cooking result




Growing

Noir de Guben
Keswick Codlin
Autumn Gold
Esopus Spitzenburg
Beauty of Bath
Picking




Cropping


Heavy
Heavy
Vigour
Slightly small

Slightly large
Slightly large
PollinationFlowering group 1
Flowers Early season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 2
Flowers Early-Mid season
Partially self-fertile
Flowering group 4
Flowers Mid-Late season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Self-sterile
Blossom frost-resistance
Gardening skill


Some skill needed
Very easy
ProblemsCanker - Some susceptibility
Fruit splitting - Some resistance
Canker - Very susceptible
Scab - Very susceptible
Fireblight - Very susceptible
Cedar apple rust - Some susceptibility
Canker - Some resistance
Scab - Very resistant
Mildew - Some resistance
Woolly aphid - Some resistance
Bitter pit - Some susceptibility

Other

Noir de Guben
Keswick Codlin
Autumn Gold
Esopus Spitzenburg
Beauty of Bath
Country of originHungary
United Kingdom
United States
United States
United Kingdom
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