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Harvest / Season: Harvest: late August; Season: August - October
Description: A very good to excellent early apple ripening. Fruits are large to very large, conical in shape with a pinkish red color. Has an exceptionally pleasing aftertaste. This quality can be maintained in storage for at least 10 weeks under refrigeration.
Tree Characteristics:
Slow to bear and a tendency toward biannual bearing. Growth habit is moderately vigorous and spreading. One of the easiest to train.
Moore Sweet
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Description: Fruit medium to large. Uniform in size and shape. Shape roundish. Skin smooth, rather pale in color, being yellow or greenish overspread with a red or pinkish red blush and dulled by greyish scarfskin. Flesh tinged with yellow or green, moderately firm, moderately fine grained, tender, rather dry, sweet, good.
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Mother
(Also known as: Gardener's Apple)
Parentage / Origin:
Massachusetts, 1840
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: October - December
Description: Very good eating apple. Fruit is round to tallish, conical, red over yellow. Distinctive flavor, wintergreen aroma. Needs full sun to be at its best.
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Mountain Boomer
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Harvest / Season: Harvest: September.
Description: A huge round apple, some specimens being larger than a saucer. It is a pale yellow with an occasional blush where exposed to the sun. Flavor and texture are exceptional, considering the size of the fruit.
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Moyer's Spice
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Description: A rather large apple of the Yellow Bellflower group: yellow, often blushed with red. Flesh is moderately crisp, coarse, very juicy, mildly subacid, becoming sweet or nearly so. Good to very good in flavor and quality.
