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| Apple Bess Pool | Apple Arlet | Apple Discovery | Apple Skinner's Seedling | Apple Golden Sweet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Late keeping eating apple. Flesh rather dry with sweet pleasant flavor. | 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. | Greenish-yellow apple, blushed pink, good for cooking and eating. Flesh white and fine-grained. | Dessert and excellent sauce apple. Good for cider. Medium-large pale yellow fruit with very sweet, juicy, rich flavor. |
Identification | Bess Pool | Arlet | Discovery | Skinner's Seedling | Golden Sweet |
| Fruit colour | Red | ||||
| Flesh colour | White to Cream, pale yellow | ||||
| Fruit size | Small | ||||
| Fruit shape | Flat | ||||
Using | Bess Pool | Arlet | Discovery | Skinner's Seedling | Golden Sweet |
| Flavor | Good | Good | |||
| Flavour style | Sweeter | Sweet/Sharp | |||
| Ripening period | Late season | Mid season | |||
| Use/Keeping | 1-2 months | 3 months or more | 1 week | ||
| Cooking result | |||||
Growing | Bess Pool | Arlet | Discovery | Skinner's Seedling | Golden Sweet |
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Good | Good | |||
| Vigour | Average growth | Slightly small | |||
| Pollination | Flowering group 5 Flowers Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Self-sterile Blossom frost-resistance | ||
| Gardening skill | Very easy | ||||
| Problems | Scab - Some susceptibility Mildew - Some susceptibility Cedar apple rust - Very susceptible | Canker - Some resistance Scab - Very resistant | |||
Other | Bess Pool | Arlet | Discovery | Skinner's Seedling | Golden Sweet |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | Switzerland | United Kingdom | United States | United States |
| Other qualities | Awards 1993 |