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Description: Maroon skin colored apple with yellow undercolor. Skin is chewy like a nectarine, and displays unique cracking near the calyx lobe. Flavor and scent similar to a nectarine.
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Nehou
Parentage / Origin:
France 1920's
Harvest / Season:
Description: Hard cider apple. Apples are soft, medium size and easily bruised.
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Newell's Late Orange
(Also known as: Newell's Winter)
Parentage / Origin:
Planted from seeds of Perry Russet.; Sauk County, Wisconsin, introduced in 1850.
Harvest / Season: Ripens late.
Description: Flat-round, sometimes irregular shape. Good size, solid yellow-green fruit entirely covered with minute green or black dots. Firm, crisp, juicy, rich white flesh.
Tree Characteristics:
Regular cropper.
Newtown Pippin
(Also known as: Yellow Newtown)
Parentage / Origin:
Newtown, Long Island, 1759
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-late October; Season: November - January
Description: Favorite apple of George Washington. Not good-looking fruit, bright green fruit with trace of brownish-purple flush and white dots. Rich, yellow, juicy flesh with refreshing piney tartness, breaking and high-flavored.
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Niagra
Parentage / Origin:
Carlton x McIntosh; New York State Ag. Station, introduced in 1962
Harvest / Season: Ripens mid-September to early October.
Description: Fruits are medium to large in size, roundish conic and irregular in shape, with deep red blush and stripe over pale yellow. The flesh is white and similar to McIntosh, very sweet and juicy, skin tough.
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Preharvest drop is considerable.
Description: Fruit usually large with clear red skin in our climate, but color is variable. Flesh is white, moderately firm, sweet and rich.
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Norland
Parentage / Origin:
Rescue x Melba
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August
Description: Medium size. Green with red stripes.
Tree Characteristics:
Naturally smaller tree. Very hardy. Precocious bearer. Susceptible to fireblight.
Northern Lights
(Also known as: NY 17-207)
Parentage / Origin:
Haralson x McIntosh; Developed by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Introduced in 1990.
Harvest / Season:
Description: Glossy, bright red fruit with slightly tart flesh. Good flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Very cold hardy. Useful for home orchards in severely cold areas.
Northern Spy
(Also known as: Red Spy, Red Northern Spy)
Parentage / Origin:
New York, 1800
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October; Season: October - February
Description: Large, round, often flattened greenish-yellow fruit flushed and striped pinkish red with a delicate bloom, and occasionally russet patches. Fine grained, rather firm, very tender, crisp, juicy, yellowish flesh. Tart, aromatic, subacid flavor. Excellent all purpose apple except not good for drying. Remarkably fresh after long storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Very large vigorous tree. Biannual bearer. Slow to bear. Very hardy.
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Northfield Beauty
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Season early
Description: Medium to large fruits, predominately red in color. Hangs well to the tree. Maintains it's quality longer both on the tree and in storage. Shape intermediate to flat, rectangular, asymetric: Skin whitish yellow , striped and splashed with red. Flesh crisp, white with subacid flavor. Excellent all purpose apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Heavy producer, immune to scab.
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Russet x Alexander; Wisconsin, 1872
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October; Season: October - December
Description: Beneath its tough skin the greenish yellow flesh is firm, juicy and mildly tart. Best when cooked into sauce or made into pies as it does not rate high for fresh eating.
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Nova Easy Gro
Parentage / Origin:
Spartan x PRI; Nova Scotia, 1971
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: through winter
Description: Fruit is large, oblate, 80% red stripe over greeninsh yellow ground. Stores well in cold storage. Flesh is snow white, firm, crisp, mildly sweet, slightly juicy. Slightly tough at picking but mellows in storage. Recommended for cooking, salads & eating fresh.
Tree Characteristics:
Resistant to scab, cedar apple rust, moderately resistant to fire blight and mildew. Hardy, vigorous and moderately productive.
Novamac
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September.
Description: Flattened fruit with 70% red stripe on green background. Crisp, tender, fine-textured flesh. Slight mcIntosh flavor. Good quality.
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Novaspy
Parentage / Origin:
NovaEasyGro x (Northern Spy x Golden Delicious); Nova Scotia
Harvest / Season:
Description: Keeps well.
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NuRed Jonathan
Parentage / Origin: Sport of Jonathan; Sauk County, Wisconsin, introduced in 1850.
