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Your top 10 varieties
These are the most popular variety pages visited on Orange Pippin in the last few months.
Top 10 by page hits
1. Apple - Pink Lady
One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.2. Apple - Ambrosia
A sweet modern apple variety from western Canada, quite similar to Golden Delicious. Discovered as a chance seedling in an orchard in British Columbia.3. Apple - 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.4. Apple - Cox's Orange Pippin
This is the benchmark for flavor in apples - from a good tree in a good year it can achieve exceptional flavor.5. Apple - Fuji
Developed in Japan, but an all-American cross of Red Delicious and Ralls Janet. A very attractive modern apple, crisp, sweet-flavoured, and keeps well.6. Apple - Gala
One of the most widely-grown apple varieties, with a sweet pleasant flavour, and good keeping qualities.7. Apple - Arkansas Black
A long-keeping tart apple from Arkansas, USA - which goes almost black in storage.8. Apple - Braeburn
Braeburn was the first of the new wave of bi-colored supermarket apple varieties, and re-established the importance of flavor in commercial apples.9. Apple - Red Delicious
One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.10. Apple - Spartan
Attractive, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, and with the characteristic delicate wine-like "vinous" flavor of the McIntosh family of apples.
Top 10 by visitor votes
1. Apple - Pink Lady
One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.2. Apple - Mutsu
A versatile dual-purpose apple, sharp but still pleasant to eat fresh. Also known as Crispin.3. Apple - Belle de Boskoop
A popular old dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands.4. Apple - Jonathan
A classic American variety, and widely regarded as one of the best flavoured with a good sweet/sharp balance. A precocious and productive tree in US apple-growing regions.5. Apple - Newtown Pippin
Also known as Albermarle Pippin. Made famous by none other than Thomas Jefferson, who grew them in his orchard at Monticello. One of the first US apple exports to the UK.6. Apple - James Grieve
A versatile cooking apple, excellent for juice, and widely used in breeding programmes.7. Apple - Esopus Spitzenburg
One of the great American apple varieties, thought to be Thomas Jefferson's favourite. Noted for its spicy flavour, and for its susceptibility to any and every disease afflicting apples.8. Apple - Akane
One of the best early-season apples, better known in the USA than Europe, but would appeal to European tastes too.9. Apple - Grimes Golden
Great historical interest as the probable parent of Golden Delicious, with similar sweet flavour and good keeping qualities, and widely planted during early 20th century.10. Apple - Smitten
A typical modern fresh-tasting apple from New Zealand, related to Falstaff, Fiesta, Gala, and Braeburn.
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