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Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October; Season: keeps till March
Description: Sweet, pleasant, lightly russeted apple of medium size to small.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is scab free, large and spreading with a biennial bearing habit.
Bismark
Parentage / Origin:
New Zealand
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid season
Description: Resembles Alexander in size and general appearance. Fruits large, attractive in color. Flesh white with a slightly green tinge, firm fine textured and juicy with acid flavor. Cooks well.
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Black Amish
Parentage / Origin:
Eastern Kentucky
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Description: Dark purple colored apple
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Black Gilliflower
(Also known as: Black Sheepnose)
Parentage / Origin:
Connecticut as early as the 18th century
Harvest / Season: Harverst: September / October
Description: Very uniform in shape and size. Large, oblong, conical ribbed fruit. Dark red deepening to almost black. Greenish white flesh. Rich, mild, sweet flavor and distinctive aroma. Hangs long on the tree but must not be allowed to over ripen as flesh soon becomes dry.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous, healthy and fruitful tree.
Black Oxford
Parentage / Origin:
Maine, 1860s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: Nov
Description: Round deep purple fruit with a black bloom.
Tree Characteristics:
Disease resistant. Shy biennial bearer
Parentage / Origin: Sport of Jonathan; Found in 1929, Wenatachee, WA. Introduced in 1931
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Description: A brighter red than Jonathan.
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Blacktwig
Parentage / Origin:
Arkansas 1868
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late season
Description: Fruit large to medium with green to yellow skin, flushed red. Flesh yellow, very firm. The ultimate in a tart apple. Tannic juice adds kick to sweet or hard cider.
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Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Blenheim
(Also known as: Blenheim Orange, Rosy Blenheim, Woodstock Pippin)
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - January
Description: Large yellow fruits flushed red with fine russeting. Flesh firm, crisp and subacid, fine textured with characteristic nutty flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Susceptible to scab but mildew resistant with heavy rainfall. Slow to come into full bearing but a good cropper. Triploid
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Blue Pearmain
Parentage / Origin:
Unknown origin, before 1833
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: November - February
Description: Predominately red with a blue bloom. Mild, sweet rich and mild acid flavor. Flesh firm, rather coarse, and aromatic. This keeper dries and shrivels in storage, yet retains good flavor.
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Blushing Golden
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Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October
Description: Fruit is yellow with up to 50% of the fruit surface covered with a dirty orange-pink blush. Waxy yellow skin is rough, bruise resistant and will not shrivel even in storage. Flesh is yellowish white with a subacid flavor and a fermented aftertaste. Shape is conic and fruits weigh 0.35 to 0.4 pounds. A full rich flavor that develops in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Remarkably disease resistant. Requires much annual thinning to obtain desired fruit quality.
Parentage / Origin:
Prussia, known in 1828 in Bremen Germany
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid October, Season: December - April
Description: Medium-sized fruit, skin smooth and yellowish with red cheek. Flesh firm and fine grained. Refreshing, sprightly, subacid flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Early and abundant bearer, very vigorous and spreading like golden russet.
Bolero ®
Parentage / Origin:
England
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August
Description: Green with yellow blush. Crisp, acid.
Tree Characteristics:
Productive on short spurs. There are no strong branches. Grown as single-stem columnar trees as close as 24" apart and reaching 9' tall, often in pots. Self-fertile to some extent. See Polka. See Waltz.
Bonnie Best
Parentage / Origin:
Cooksville, Wisconsin
Harvest / Season: Harvest: early October
Description: Fruits are large with attractive pale red striping. Flesh is creamy color, crunchy, tender, juicy and slightly tart. Keeps well in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Trees are hardy with sturdy wide angled limbs that resist breaking. Resistant to fire blight.
Bonza
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Harvest / Season:
Description: A good flavored, good keeping large red apple that looks like a Jonathon.
Tree Characteristics:
Bottle Greening
Parentage / Origin:
Chance seedling; Discovered early 1800s, NY and Vermont border, USA
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - Feb
Description: Good keeper. Fruit large to medium sized. Skin thick, tough, green with yellow cast blushed red on one side. Flesh tender and very juicy, almost melting. Excellent quality. Bruises easily.
Tree Characteristics:
Excels for home orchards. Tree hardy, vigorous and productive
