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| Cherry Bigarreau de Mezel | Apple Prairie Spy | Apple Smoothee Golden Delicious | Apple Howgate Wonder | ||
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| Summary | Heart-shaped. A little fibrous, moderately juicy, good flavour. | All purpose. Red over yellow, attractive large fruit. Some russeting may occur. Excellent flavor, improves in storage. Extra long keeping winter apple. | Continues to be the most russet-resistant Golden Delicious strain, allowing quality Goldens to be grown where proneness to russetting would otherwise prohibit Golden production. Essentially the same as Golden Delicious except for skin smoothness and russet resistance. | Very large cooker, not great flavour when cooked but excellent sharp juice | |
Identification | Bigarreau de Mezel | Prairie Spy | Smoothee Golden Delicious | Howgate Wonder | |
| Fruit colour | Dark Red | Red / Orange flush | |||
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Using | Bigarreau de Mezel | Prairie Spy | Smoothee Golden Delicious | Howgate Wonder | |
| Flavor | Very good | Good | |||
| Flavour style | Sweeter | ||||
| Ripening period | Early season | Mid season | Mid-Late season | ||
| Use/Keeping | 3 months or more | 3 months or more | |||
| Cooking result | Puree | ||||
Growing | Bigarreau de Mezel | Prairie Spy | Smoothee Golden Delicious | Howgate Wonder | |
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| Cropping | Good | Heavy | |||
| Vigour | Average growth | Large | |||
| Pollination | Flowering group 1 Flowers Early season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid-Late season Partially self-fertile | ||
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| Problems | Canker - Very susceptible Brown rot - Some resistance Fruit splitting - Some resistance | Scab - Some resistance Fireblight - Some susceptibility Cedar apple rust - Some resistance | Bitter pit - Very resistant | ||
Other | Bigarreau de Mezel | Prairie Spy | Smoothee Golden Delicious | Howgate Wonder | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | United States | United Kingdom | ||
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