A superior quality red apple with an outstanding crisp texture and a juicy combination of sweet and tart flavors. You can pick it in September, but it develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October. It is among the most winter hardy, showing little damage at minus 40 deg. F.
It's somewhat scab resistant and has not shown problems with fireblight. It is wonderful fresh and great for pies, crisps and applesauce. New from the U of Minnesota. Best fruit quality in the Northern half of the country. Hardy to USDA Zone 3. Patent # 7197.
This small orange-red apple has been an American favorite for more than 250 years. It is also called the "snow apple" because of its white flesh which is sometimes streaked with red.
The apples ripen in September, are tender and juicy with a great sweet/tart flavor. They are prized for fresh eating and cooking and make an aromatic bitter/sweet cider.
The British have really done it this time! They have inserted the fabulous, sweet, tangy and refreshing flavor of Cox's Orange Pippin into a heavily productive disease resistant apple and we are finally making it available to American backyard growers.
Its color is 75 percent red over a green background. This patented, large round apple ripens in late September or early October and is a good keeper. It produces when others fail and is reportedly partially self fertile. On semi-dwarf rootstock.
As the story goes, Sir Isaac Newton saw an apple fall from the Flower of Kent tree at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England, inspiring him to discover the laws of gravity. Later it was said it hit him on the head.
The apple is green, pear shaped, mealy, sub acid and used for cooking. It ripens in late season. Perhaps a blow on the head from this apple will inspire you too.
As the story goes, Sir Isaac Newton saw an apple fall from the Flower of Kent tree at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England, inspiring him to discover the laws of gravity. Later it was said it hit him on the head.
The apple is green, pear shaped, mealy, sub acid and used for cooking. It ripens in late season. Perhaps a blow on the head from this apple will inspire you too.
Located at Old Apple Tree Park in Vancouver, Washington, this living tree, planted between 1826 and 1830, is believed to be the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.
The old apple tree was planted from seeds brought from England. It is thought to be the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest. Plant a bit of history in your yard too. The community celebrates the Old Apple Tree Festival each year on the first Saturday in October to commemorate this historic tree.
The small green apples ripen in September and are used for pie or cider.
A bittersweet cider apple from Normandy. The tree is precocious and productive and moderately vigorous. Fruit matures in mid season. It is favored for making a high quality cider despite being scab and fire blight susceptible.
This small, highly scab-resistant, easy-to-grow tree is covered with white blossoms late each spring. Then from summer through fall, small, bright yellow apples adorn the tree.
The leaves resemble those on an old oak tree, which is both very attractive and great for confusing your friends who think they know about plants. Golden Raindrops pollinates late blooming apples well.
This golden-bronze heritage apple has finely textured yellow flesh with a distinctive sugary-sweetness. An excellent storage apple and is prized for fresh eating, drying and making cider.
Tip-bearing tree blooms mid-season and ripens late, often on a two-year cycle. They show some resistance to scab and cedar apple rust.
