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| Apple Suntan | Apple Green Balsam | Apple Ashmead's Kernel | Pear Clapp Favorite | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Medium-large fruit, gold-yellow flushed and striped orange-red. Flesh yellowish-cream. Firm and fairly juicy. Flesh rather coarsely textured, crisp. | A 19th century variety grown in a small part of the county of North Yorkshire, and known as 'the farmer's wife's apple'. | A very old apple variety, with a drab appearance which belies a unique peardrop flavour. Ashmead's Kernel is also one of very small number of English apple varieties that also thrives in North America. | An attractive and well-known 19th century American pear. It ripens early season, and does not keep. | |
Identification | Suntan | Green Balsam | Ashmead's Kernel | Clapp Favorite | |
| Fruit colour | Green | Yellow / Gold | |||
| Flesh colour | White | ||||
| Fruit size | Small | Medium | |||
| Fruit shape | Flat-round | ||||
Using | Suntan | Green Balsam | Ashmead's Kernel | Clapp Favorite | |
| Flavor | Very good | Very good | |||
| Flavour style | Sweet/Sharp | Sweet/Sharp | Sweeter | ||
| Ripening period | Late season | Late season | Mid-Late season | ||
| Use/Keeping | 2-3 weeks | 3 months or more | |||
| Cooking result | |||||
Growing | Suntan | Green Balsam | Ashmead's Kernel | Clapp Favorite | |
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Good | Light | |||
| Vigour | Slightly large | Average growth | |||
| Pollination | Flowering group 5 Flowers Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 2 Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Flowers Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile | |
| Gardening skill | Some skill needed | ||||
| Problems | Mildew - Some susceptibility | Scab - Some resistance Mildew - Some resistance Cedar apple rust - Some resistance Bitter pit - Some susceptibility | Scab - Very susceptible Fireblight - Very susceptible | ||
Other | Suntan | Green Balsam | Ashmead's Kernel | Clapp Favorite | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | United States | |
| Other qualities | Awards |