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Description: These semi-tart apples are crisp with just the right mixture of sweetness and zip for fresh off the tree eating. Smooth striped skin is cherry red and very attractive.
Tree Characteristics:
A strong tree and a heavy bearer of 3" apples.
Earligold, USPP #4,820
Parentage / Origin:
Chance seedling; Selah, Washington, USA
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early August Season: August
Description: Medium size, clean yellow skin. Limited shelf life.
Tree Characteristics:
Early Harvest
Parentage / Origin:
USA, prior to 1800
Harvest / Season: Harvest: July - Aug
Description: Cooking apple, especially good for sauce, and eating apple when fully ripe. Golden with slight blush of brownish orange. Crisp, tender, creamy white flesh with subacid flavor
Tree Characteristics:
Early Mcintosh
Parentage / Origin:
McIntosh x Yellow Transparent. Not a sport of McIn
Harvest / Season:
Description:
Tree Characteristics:
Very hardy.
Early Strawberry
Parentage / Origin:
New York City around 1800
Harvest / Season: Harvest: July to August
Description: Small, sprightly, aromatically flavored with solid rich dark red skin and crisp yellowish flesh sometimes streaked with red.
Description: A large apple with a firmer flesh than Yellow Delicious and a fine strawberry aroma.
Tree Characteristics:
Edward VII
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Noble x Blenheim Orange; Imported from England. Introduced in 1908
Harvest / Season: Ripens late
Description: Regarded by some as the finest winter apple for spring pie and sauce. A great cooking apple. Medium to large, shiny green or yellow skin, flesh firm, tart and juicy. Flat-round to round shape. Keeps until Easter when it possesses a rich, sweet flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree slow to come into bearing and a moderate cropper. Tree upright, hardy and scab resistant.
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Egremont Russet
Parentage / Origin:
England, prior to 1872
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - October, Season: October - December
Description: Considered one of the best eating apples. Small, round, golden brown russet fruit often with black spots or markings. Greenish-yellow, richly flavored, very distinctive flesh, often described as nutty. Almost smoky, tannic quality develops after keeping and flesh becomes drier.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September - October, Season: October
Description: Eating apple. Medium sized, golden-yellow with crimson stripes. Tender, juicy flesh with spicy anise flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Elstar
(Also known as: Lustre Elstar)
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Ingrid Marie; Holland 1955. Introduced in US in 1972.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late August; Season: August - October
Description: 80% light red stripe over yellow, large fruit with firm flesh. Very good for fresh eating and cooking. Flavor increases with about four weeks storage.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September; Season: September through January
Description: Dark red with heavy, waxy bloom. Creamy white juicy, moderately subacid flesh. High dessert quality also good for cider.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous upright early bearing tree with a strong wide crotch angle. Tendency toward spur type habit. Very consistent annual producer.
Empress
Parentage / Origin:
Jonamac x Vista Bella; Named in 1966. Introduced in 1988. From New York Fruit Testing
Harvest / Season:
Description: Fruit is medium sized, 90% red, with excellent eating quality and the aromatics of Jonamac.
Tree Characteristics:
Enterprise (Co Op 30 cv.), USPP #9,193
(Also known as: Co-op 30)
Parentage / Origin:
PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1993
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early October
Description: Fruit is round, medium large, glossy full red color. Flesh is yellow-cream, firm, crisp, or somewhat similar to Idared. Storage ability 4-6 months with a slight increase in flavor intensity.
Tree Characteristics:
This is spreading and vigorous. Disease resistant variety.
Epicure
Parentage / Origin:
U.K.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August
Description: Small, firm early apple. Very good dessert quality.
Tree Characteristics:
Very productive.
Erwin Bauer
Parentage / Origin:
Duchess of Oldenburg x ???; Germany, 1928
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - January
Description: Eating apple. Medium size fruit, deep yellow skin with stripes. Flesh especially hard and crisp with sweet aromatic flavor.
Description: Medium to large, greenish yellow fruit ripening to a clear golden color. Excellent eating quality. Good for cooking. Flesh remains crisp and juicy even after months in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Reliable annual producer with spur-type growth habit. Outstanding productivity but susceptible to Rust.
