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| Apple Milo Gibson | Apple Beauty of Hampshire | Apple Jonared | Cherry Flamentiner | Apple Tolman Sweet | |
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| Summary | Red and yellow fruit. A fine tasting apple with unique licorice flavor. | An attractive 19th century dessert apple, possibly related to Blenheim Orange | Flavor similar to Jonathan | Roundish-oblong. Firm, slightly fibrous, not very juicy, sweet, fair quality. Stone large. | Excellent for cider and drying, also a good dessert and baking apple. Large green or yellow apple, sometimes blushed red with lines of russet, often marked by a suture top to bottom. Flesh is firm, dry to moderately juicy, decidedly sweet. Historically, a highly esteemed 'sweet' apple. |
Identification | Milo Gibson | Beauty of Hampshire | Jonared | Flamentiner | Tolman Sweet |
| Fruit colour | Bright Red | ||||
| Flesh colour | White | ||||
| Fruit size | Small | ||||
| Fruit shape | Flat-round | ||||
Using | Milo Gibson | Beauty of Hampshire | Jonared | Flamentiner | Tolman Sweet |
| Flavor | Good | ||||
| Flavour style | Sweeter | ||||
| Ripening period | Mid-Late season | Mid season | Very-Late season | ||
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Growing | Milo Gibson | Beauty of Hampshire | Jonared | Flamentiner | Tolman Sweet |
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| Vigour | Large | ||||
| Pollination | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season | Flowering group 6 Flowers Very-Late season Self-sterile | ||
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| Problems | Fruit splitting - Very susceptible | ||||
Other | Milo Gibson | Beauty of Hampshire | Jonared | Flamentiner | Tolman Sweet |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | United States | Switzerland | United States | |
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