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Description: Green-yellow ribbed fruit with red stripes. Tender white flesh sometimes stained red. Qunce-like texture.
Tree Characteristics:
Hardy tree is an early annual bearer.
Hampshire, USPP #8,519
Parentage / Origin:
Originated as chance seedling in a Red Delicious O; New Hampshire, introduced in 1990,
Harvest / Season:
Description: Fruits are large and uniformly round to oblate with 100% red blush with little stiping. Skin is thin and tough, flesh creamy white, slow to discolor. Sub-acid, yet mildly sweet, sprightly, good aromatics. Has excellent storage life.
Tree Characteristics:
Very precocious and highly productive. Proven cold-hardy.
Haralred (Lautz cv.)
Parentage / Origin:
Sport of Red Haralson; La Crescent, Minnesota
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September.
Description: Selection of Red Haralson. Earlier, redder, and sweeter, without the common russeting problem many Haralsons have. Juicy, tart, firm flesh. Good keeper.
Tree Characteristics:
Fire resistant. Extremely hardy.
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Haralson
Parentage / Origin:
Malinda x Wealthy [Parentage verified by DNA tests; Minnesota, 1913
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September; Season: October - February
Description: Good baking, eating and cider apple. Flesh is crisp, juicy, firm. Mildly tart flavor, not acid. Holds its shape and texture in baking. Retains good flavor in keeping.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is vigorous, bears young, with a tendency toward biennial bearing.
Description: Large, crisp, hard, juicy, tasty, tart apple
Tree Characteristics:
Hauxapfel
Parentage / Origin:
Germany, 1920
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October, Season: November-March
Description: Known as a cider apple, very good for cooking and baking. Excellent eating for those who enjoy a crisp, tart apple. Medium to large fruit. Red stripes over green skin.
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Hawaii
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Gravenstein; Introduced in 1945
Harvest / Season:
Description: Gourmet dessert apple with a flavor and aroma like pineapple. Large, yellow fruit with light pinkish orange striping gives overall orange appearance. Exceptionally sweet flavor is largely influenced by Gravenstein.
Tree Characteristics:
Growth habit is moderate spreading and easily trained. Tends to be biennial.
Hawkeye Delicious
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season:
Description: This is the original Delicious, the one that earned the name. This genuine original strain of the world's most widely grown apple has never been improved on as far as eating quality is concerned, superior to all spur types.
Tree Characteristics:
Hawley
(Also known as: Douse, Dowse)
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September
Description: Large fruit with smooth, waxy skin, greenish yellow in color with an inconspicuous brown blush. Russet dots and flecks cover most of the surface, especially toward the cavity and the stem is about 3/4" long in a wide, deep cavity. The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, soft, juicy and subacid.
Tree Characteristics:
Slow to begin bearing then bears regularly
Description: Excellent quality and a fine keeper. Green shading to pale yellow when ripe.
Tree Characteristics:
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Hazen
Parentage / Origin:
Duchess Oldenburg x Starking Delicious; North Dakota University, introduced in 1980
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August to September; Season: September
Description: Large round dark red fruit. Greenish yellow, medium firm, juicy, very sweet flesh; mildly subacid flavor. Pleasant for eating, good dessert and cooking apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Henry Clay
Parentage / Origin:
1951.00
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid August.
Description: Yellow and red fruit is similar to Yellow Transparent. Medium size, shaped flat to intermediate. Ribbed at eye and on the body, often asymmetric. Skin green with pinkish orange flush, russet dots and occasional russet patches. Flesh is soft, juicy, greenish white, flavor slightly acid.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree moderately vigorous.
Herrings Pippin
Parentage / Origin:
England, c. 1908
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - November
Description: Excellent eating and cooking apple. Fruit large, deep green, coloured crimson on one side. Flesh crisp but tender when ripe. Spicy flavor, pleasing aroma.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is hardy and prolific, a regular cropper. Suitable for heavy, cold soils. Hardy to -50 degrees with occasional winter injury.
Heyer 12
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season:
Description: Green to yellow. Medium size. Soft, tart, juicy cooking apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Very hardy, but less hardy than Heyer 20. Very vigorous. Precocious bearer.
