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Harvest / Season: Harvest: early September; Season: September
Description: Excellent eating apple, delicious and aromatic sauce apple. Roundish red and yellow fruit. Flesh crisp, juicy, tender.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is a productive bearer.
Goof
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Harvest / Season: Harvest: early October.
Description: A round, medium sized apple, pale green overlaid with deep purplish-red, and faint yellow streaks. White flesh is crisp, juicy and moderately subacid.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree crops heavily with well spurred spreading growth habit.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October; Season: October - December
Description: Green, crisp and tart, and an excellent keeper.
Tree Characteristics:
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Gravenstein
Parentage / Origin:
Italy, early 1600s.USA 1790
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August-September; Season: till early November
Description: Large, round to slightly flattened orangish yellow fruit with red stripes. Thin skin. Crisp, juicy, fine grained, yellowish white flesh. Known for fine flavor. Unexcelled for cooking. Makes wonderful pies, desserts, sauces, and cider. With proper storage, keeps until November.
Tree Characteristics:
Large, vigorous, upright tree. Triploid
Green Sweet
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Harvest / Season: Season: December to April.
Description: A desirable late keeping apple excellent for either eating or culinary use. It holds it's flavor and remains crisp, brittle and juicy until spring. Skin grass-green becoming a pretty yellow with a thin brownish red blush in highly colored specimens. Flesh greenish-white, tender, fine grained, juicy, very sweet.
Parentage / Origin:
James Grieve x Golden Delicious
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid to late September
Description: Color is pale garnished with yellow, sometimes faint pink-orange flesh. Size is medium, shape oblong or round-conic. The fruits are crunchy and sweet with a nice tangy bite.
Tree Characteristics:
Hardy and a partial tip bearer. Cropping is very heavy and the trees bear fruit very early in life.
Grenadier
Parentage / Origin:
England, prior to 1862
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid August, Season: till October
Description: Large pale green ribbed apple with russet dots. Flesh tinged green, tangy, juicy and rather honey-flavored. Cooks to a fluff, good for baking and purees.
Tree Characteristics:
Scab resistant.
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Grimes Golden
Parentage / Origin:
West Virginia, 1832
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October; Season: October - January
Description: Multiple uses, superior eating apple, great cider, keeps well. Medium to large clear yellow fruit. Flesh is crisp, fine-grained, and juicy yellow flesh. Rich, distinctive, aromatic spicy flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree bears young. Moderately resistant to fire blight and cedar-apple rust.
Grove
Parentage / Origin:
Ingram x Delicious; Introduced in 1935 by Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid to late October.
Description: Fruit is medium large, conic in shape, having a dull finish, striped orange-red over yellow green. The flesh is pale cream color, very sweet and juicy.
