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Parentage / Origin:
McIntosh x Jersey Black; Geneva Station in 1909, introduced 1950
Harvest / Season: Harvest: early to mid-October, Season: November - December
Description: Size and shape like McIntosh with more striped and deeper red coloring. Dark purplish red blush over green background. Firm, aromatic, all-purpose high quality eating apple. Fruit drops readily and bruises easily.
Tree Characteristics:
Medium size, vigorous, hardy, spur type productive tree. Upright habit needing spreading. Must thin to maintain fruit size and annual bearing. Very resistant to fireblight.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree has weaker, shorter growth than Gala.
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Maiden's Blush
Parentage / Origin:
New Jersey, prior to 1817.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-August to mid-September; Season: September - December
Description: Cooking, dessert and cider apple, also dries well. Flat, round pale yellow-skinned fruit with crimson blush. Crisp, tender flesh with sharp acid flavor that mellows with ripening.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October; Season: through spring.
Description: Crisp, juicy flesh; mildly subacid, sweet flavor. Slightly honeyed, mellowing to a citrus taste in storage. Bruise resistant. Keeps well in storage.
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Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Malinda
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Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October; Season: November - February
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Malus Floribunda
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Description: Ornamental crab apple with a long, early to mid-season flowering period. Not for eating.
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Mantent
Parentage / Origin:
Tetofsky x McIntosh; Manitoba, Canada. Introduced in 1929.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-July
Description: Medium to large, summer apple. Amber fruit washed with red. Juicy, tender, aromatic, white flesh. Sweet and juicy with pleasing flavor. High quality. Excellent for fresh eating.
Tree Characteristics:
Upright, productive tree grows vigorously. In some seasons, such as early and excessive heat, breakdown is a problem. Hardy to -50 degrees with occasional winter injury.
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Margil
Parentage / Origin:
England or France, introduced in 1750
Harvest / Season: Harvest: early October, Season: October - December
Description: Medium to small, slightly conical fruit. Orangish red skin with dark red stripes over gold russet patches. Always russeted on one side. Firm, sugary, yellow flesh. Intensely flavored, rich, aromatic, deep cream flesh. Irregularly ribbed shape.
Tree Characteristics:
Small tree suitable for a small garden. Light cropper.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September; Season: September - December
Description: Fruit beautiful deep red color, size variable. Flesh white, firm, tender, very juicy, flavor characteristically aromatic, perfumed, subacid.
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McLean
Parentage / Origin:
Canada, 1960
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-late August.
Description: Medium sized attractive pale yellow skinned apple, with a light blush. Flesh is mildly acid, with good quality.
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McLellan
Parentage / Origin:
Seedling; Woodstock, Connecticut, introduced in 1780
Harvest / Season: Ripens late fall.
Description: Light smooth, straw colored fruit, covered with stripes and marblings of lively red. Good sprightly taste of fruit in November. Crisp, firm flesh.
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McLicious
Parentage / Origin:
Classical Fruits in Moulton, AL, 1992
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McShay
Parentage / Origin:
McIntosh x PRI 612-4; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), selected 1970
