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Description: Excellent for fresh eating. A very pretty, medium size, conical to round fruit with yellow skin patterned with bright orange-red. Firm, juicy, fine textured, yellow white flesh. Sweet slightly tart flavor. Hangs well on tree.
Tree Characteristics:
Compact growth habit, prolific bearer. Needs heavy thinning to maintain fruit size and prevent biennial bearing.
Gala Supreme
Parentage / Origin:
Chance seedling of Red Delicious. Not a Gala Sport
Harvest / Season:
Description: Similar to Gala with striped red color and a snappy sweet flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Galarina (Borkh cv.)
Parentage / Origin:
Gala x Florina Querina; INRA, Angers, France, then tested & released by Quebec Apple Breeding Program
Harvest / Season:
Description: Small to medium size. Variable reddish coloring over green-yellow (when not fully colored). Some ribbing. Five-pointed calyx end. Smooth, thick, tough skin. Keeps 4+ months in excellent condition, holding flavor better than Gala.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately vigorous, upright/spreading. Fruit does not drop from the tree. Resistant to scab via Vf gene from Malus floribunda 821.
Parentage / Origin:
Ben Davis type; Kentucky/Missouri USA, 19th century
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September, Season: through winter
Description: Fruit has light yellow skin that is striped and flushed red.It turns purple-red upon ripening. Flesh firm, crisp and juicy, subacid flavor.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late Summer to early Fall.
Description: Very balanced, mild, and sub-acidic. Pretty with light yellow with splashes of orange, green, and red. It is considered by many to be one of the best eating apples of late summer and early autumn. The flesh is firm, very tender, aromatic, and with a delicate, pleasant acid flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is hardy, healthy and long lived. Biennial bearer. Bears young, upright round tree shape.
Garland
Parentage / Origin:
Melba x Haralson; Manitoba 1961
Harvest / Season:
Description: A disease resistant McIntosh type.
Tree Characteristics:
Geneva
Parentage / Origin:
Ottawa, 1930
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September - October
Description: Choice for cider, jelly and blending in juice for color. A medium-size crabapple with red flesh and very tart flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is hardy and scab resistant. Its red leaves make it beautiful for a home garden.
George Carpenter
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: November - December
Description: The color is a brighter yellow and the scarlet more abundant, brighter and deeper.
Tree Characteristics:
George Cave
Parentage / Origin:
England, 1923
Harvest / Season: Harvest: July - mid-August
Description: Fruit is pale green-yellow with red flush diffused over one half. Flesh is sweet, tart and juicy.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is moderately vigorous, a reliable cropper.
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious type; Virginia
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid to late August; Season: August - September
Description: Can be picked green but will turn an attractive yellow with a blush if allowed to hang on the tree. Uniform fruit size. Keeps up to 6 months in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous tree habit but no limb spreading is necessary.
Gloster
Parentage / Origin:
Weisser Winterglockenapfel x Richared Delicious; Germany. Introduced in 1969
Harvest / Season: Ripens late in the season.
Description: Conic shape, attractive fully red fruit with calyx end shoulder bumps. Larger, mostly 3" diameter. Good flavor, crisp flesh. Tarter flavor than Delicious.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree vigorous, heavy cropper.
