Irish Peach apple

/IGH-rish peech/
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A crisp, juicy, tasty medium-sized eating apple with yellowish-green skin flushed blushed and striped with orange and red. This apple possibly arose in Sligo and is recorded by 1819 by Mr John Robertson of Kilkenny. Early-season apple is harvested from August in South-East England and has poor storage properties. It is also used for baking.

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