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Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - February
Description: Tall cylindrical apple. Creamy, yellow porcelain-like skin with red blush. Crisp, juicy, fine-textured flesh, excellent flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree tends toward small, pyramidal shape. Heavy, regular bearer.
Karin Schneider
Parentage / Origin:
A red sport of Ingrid Marie; Denmark
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: December - Apr
Description: Medium large fruit, skin yellow skin with crimson. Sweet, aromatic flavor
Tree Characteristics:
Karmijn De Sonneville
Parentage / Origin:
Jonathon x Cox's Orange Pippin; Netherlands, 1971
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September - October, Season: October - December
Description: Intensely flavored, rich, aromatic, masses of sugar and acidity, crisp, juicy flesh. One of the strongest flavored apples.
Tree Characteristics:
Susceptible to apple scab and grows best in cooler summer areas. Triploid
Katja
Parentage / Origin:
James Grieve x Worcester Pearmain; Sweden, 1966
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: 2-3 weeks after harvest
Description: Medium sized fruit, nearly solid red with tough, thick skin. Juicy flesh. Good flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is a hardy, productive bearer, mildew and scab resistant
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Keepsake
Parentage / Origin:
Malinda x Northern Spy; Introduced in 1979
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October - November; Season: October - April
Description: Unattractive, irregularly shaped, 2.25 to 2.75 inch diameter, 90% red fruit. Fine grained, hard, very crisp, juicy light yellow flesh. Strongly aromatic flavor. Very hardy. Mellows with age. Attains peak fresh eating quality in January or February. Keeps in storage through April.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately vigorous spreading tree. Resistant to fire blight and cedar apple rust.
Description: Greenish-yellow fruit that is flushed and striped red. Crisp, white flesh that is juicy with a sweet-sharp and aromatic flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree bears young and is a good cropper. Prone to coarse russet.
Kerry Irish Pippin
Parentage / Origin:
Ireland 1802
Harvest / Season:
Description: Small shiny yellow fruit, sometimes striped red. Crisp, crunchy, hard flesh.
Tree Characteristics:
Keswick Codlin
Parentage / Origin:
England, First recorded 1793
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August - September, Season: September - Oct
Description: Large, green-yellow fruit, sometimes with a faint blush. Fine, tart flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Heavy cropper.
Kidd's Orange Red
Parentage / Origin:
Cox's Orange Pippin x Red Delicious; New Zealand, 1924
Harvest / Season: Harvest: early October; Season: October - January
Description: Medium size, conic, slightly ribbed. Pale greenish-yellow fruit well covered by crimson flush and broken stripes of purple-crimson. Patches of russet. Sweet, aromatic flavor and firm, fine-textured flesh.
Tree Characteristics:
Fruit can be small if not well thinned.
Parentage / Origin:
Believed to Jonathan x Dutch Mignonne; Australia, 1912
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid October
Description: Bright red Jonathan flush, smooth skinned dessert variety. Good brisk tasting fruit, keeps until January.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree moderately vigorous
King David
Parentage / Origin:
Arkansas, 1893
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October to early November; Season: October - December
Description: Medium size, pale green fruit overlaid with deep dark red. Firm, crisp, spicy, juicy yellow flesh. Very rich and flavorful. Resembles Winesap in appearance and taste. Fruits never seem to drop and increase in brilliance of color as the season goes on. For best eating, should be picked when the red color becomes complete.
Tree Characteristics:
Large tree. Good storage ability. Bears very early. Resistant to fire blight.
King of the Pippins
(Also known as: Golden Winter Pearmain)
Parentage / Origin:
Possibly Sturmer Pippin x Ribston Pippin.; England, early 1800s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October, Season: October - December
Description: One of the best late eating apples. Greenish-yellow to yellow fruit flushed with brown-orange and stripes of red, some russet patches. Firm, dry highly aromatic flesh with distinctive sweet-bitter flavor and almond undertones.
Tree Characteristics:
King Of Tompkin's County
Parentage / Origin:
New York prior to 1804
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - mid October, Season: October - December
Description: Large, smooth skinned yellow apple with orange red blush. Flesh yellowish, coarse, crisp, tender, flavor subacid.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree vigorous, spreading and productive. Triploid
Kingston Black
Parentage / Origin:
England 1820
Harvest / Season:
Description: Crimson apple over yellow orange base. Bitter sharp taste.
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Ralls Janet; Japan
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid October
Description: Large blushed yellow apple that is sweet and firm. Some calyx russetting can occur in warmer districts. Storage is rated excellent.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree resembles Golden Delicious in growth habit and production.
Kleinheart (Sponsel cv.)
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October; Season October - November
Description:
Tree Characteristics:
Knobbed Russet
(Also known as: Knobby Russet)
Parentage / Origin:
Sussex, England, 1819
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-late October, Season: October - February/March
Description: Green and yellow fruit, sometimes scarlet streaked in the sun. Uneven surface is overlaid with rough gray and black russet, welts and knobs; worthy of its name. Crisp, rich, sugary, highly flavored flesh of the highest quality.
