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Using

Picking season

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Keeping / storage

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Flavor quality

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Flavor style

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Food uses

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Cooking result

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Discoloration of fruit

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Juice style

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Growing

Gardening skill

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Self-fertility

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Flowering group

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Pollinating others

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Ploidy

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Tree vigor

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Precocity

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Bearing regularity

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Fruit bearing

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Climate

Cold hardiness (USDA)

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Summer average maximum temperatures

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Frost resistance of blossom

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Chill requirement

Identification

Country of origin

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Period of origin

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Flesh color

    Fruit color

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    Fruit size

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    Other qualities

    Disease resistance

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    Bitter pit

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    Canker

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    Cedar apple rust

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    Fire blight

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    Powdery mildew

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    Scab

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    • Antonovka
      A popular small green culinary apple variety from Russia. Also of importance as a rootstock because of its ability to tolerate extreme cold.

    • Black Oxford
      Round deep purple fruit with a black bloom.

    • Bulmer's Norman
      Specifically a cider variety. Bittersweet flavor.

    • Duchess of Oldenburg
      An attractive early-season apple, originating from Russia in the 18th century, and now quite widely grown in northern Europe and the USA.

    • Haralson
      Good baking, eating and cider apple. Flesh is crisp, juicy, firm. Mildly tart flavor, not acid. Holds its shape and texture in baking. Retains good flavor in keeping.

    • Honeycrisp
      Sometimes marketed as Honey Crisp or Honeycrunch, this is a crisp, and predominantly sweet, modern variety from the USA. It was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates, and is one of the most cold-hardy of apple varieties.

    • As the name suggests Prairie Magic was developed in Manitoba specifically for the cold climate of the Canadian prairies.

    • Spartan
      Attractive, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, and with the characteristic delicate wine-like 'vinous' flavor of the McIntosh family of apples.

    • Sweet Sixteen
      Large, red striped fruit. Firm, crisp, aromatic flesh. Moderately acidic.

    • Yellow Transparent
      Well-known early summer apple, good for drying, freezing, sauce, juice and wine. Transparent pale yellow skin. Crisp, light-textured, juicy flesh. Very sweet flavor. Not good storer.