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| Cherry Noir de Guben | Apple Keswick Codlin | Apple Autumn Gold | Apple Esopus Spitzenburg | Apple Beauty of Bath | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Round-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 period | Early 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 | ||
| Pollination | Flowering 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 | |||
| Problems | Canker - 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 origin | Hungary | United Kingdom | United States | United States | United Kingdom |
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