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Harvest / Season: Harvest: October; Season: October to January
Description: Distinctly sweet and of very good quality, but not a very good keeper. Skin tender, clear bright yellow largely covered with deep red. Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, moderately juicy, decidedly sweet.
Tree Characteristics:
Baldwin
(Also known as: Woodpecker)
Parentage / Origin:
Chance seedling; Discovered Massachusetts, USA, 1740
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - Feb
Description: Medium to large, yellow base flushed with orange and striped red. Juicy with sweet to subacid flavor, aromatic and firm. Good cider base, and great for pies.
Tree Characteristics:
Usually a productive and vigorous tree. Often a biennial bearer. Triploid
Description: Large, green with red blush. Coarse, hard flesh. Subacid. Winter keeper, keeping several months without refrigeration. Excellent cooking apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Very vigorous tree.
Barry
Parentage / Origin:
A 1957 Geneva, N.Y introduction, McIntosh x Cox Orange Pippin
Harvest / Season:
Description: Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Slow grower
Beacon
Parentage / Origin:
Wealthy x Malinda
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late August - September. Season: late August - September
Description: A beautiful apple that has lively, juicy flavor and is good for baking, it does not keep extremely well.
Parentage / Origin:
Russia, in the USA by mid 1800s, via Canada
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September
Description: Fruit is yellow splashed with red. Short storage period.
Tree Characteristics:
Valued as a pollinator and rootstock. Seedlings as rootstock give a 65% tree.
Beauty of Bath
Parentage / Origin:
Originated near Bath, England about 1864
Harvest / Season:
Description: Dinstinctly flat well coloured mottled appearance. One of the earliest apples.
Tree Characteristics:
Beauty of Stoke
Parentage / Origin:
England 1889
Harvest / Season:
Description:
Tree Characteristics:
Bedfordshire Foundling
Parentage / Origin:
Probably England about 1800.
Harvest / Season:
Description: Large angular cooking apple
Tree Characteristics:
Belle De Boskoop
Parentage / Origin:
Bud sport of Rechette de Montfort; Holland, found c. 1856
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: November - April
Description: Excels as a longtime keeper, sweetens in storage. Large fruit, greenish-yellow flushed with brick red and a light russeting. Flesh aromatic, acid tart and crisp.
Tree Characteristics:
Scab resistant, slow to bear but in maturity a good cropper. Triploid
Parentage / Origin:
Ottawa 521 x Spartan. Not a McIntosh sport.
Harvest / Season:
Description: Very good flavored Mac-type.
Tree Characteristics:
Some apple scab immunity. Cold hardy.
Belmont
Parentage / Origin:
Pennsylvania, mid 1800s.
Harvest / Season:
Description: Large, yellow. Tender flesh. Mild. Terrific story about the history of the Belmont Apple
Tree Characteristics:
Ben Davis
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late September; Season: Late September through April
Description: Once a commercial variety in US. Large, attractive fruit. Bright red over yellow. Firm, coarse flesh. Not particularly flavorful. Winter keeper.
Tree Characteristics:
Plenty of spurs. Wide adaptablility. Consistent cropper.
Berne Rose
(Also known as: Berner Rosen)
Parentage / Origin:
Origin in Switzerland, 1888
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early October
Description: Reddish-yellow in color with greenish-yellow dots. Flesh sweet & juicy. Good keeper.
Tree Characteristics:
A very dependable annual heavy bearer.
Bess Pool
Parentage / Origin:
Nottinghamshire England, 1824
Harvest / Season:
Description: Late keeping eating apple. Flesh rather dry with sweet pleasant flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Suitable to areas subjected to late frosts because it flowers later than many other varieties.
