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Description: Cider and eating apple. Like other russets, its high flavor has a tart sweetness and pear-like richness.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is a heavy cropper.
Porter
(Also known as: Jennings, Yellow Summer Pearmain)
Parentage / Origin:
Massachusetts, 1840
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - October
Description: Very good eating, canning and cooking apple. Pure yellow skin with crimson blush, tender, sweet and juicy flesh. Retains its form with cooking.
Tree Characteristics:
Porter's Perfection
Parentage / Origin:
England
Harvest / Season: Harvest: November
Description: English cider apple. Cream coloured, flushed dark red. Bitter-sharp cider blending quality.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree vigorous, heavy cropper, tends to biennial bearing.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: November - March
Description: All purpose. Red over yellow, attractive large fruit. Some russeting may occur. Excellent flavor, improves in storage. Extra long keeping winter apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is hardy, vigorous, long-lived, productive annually, and bears young.
Priam
Parentage / Origin:
PRI 14-126 x Jonathan; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Indiana Co Op, but introduced in France, 1974.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: One week before Delicious
Description: Medium range red over green-yellow. Keeps well through January.
Tree Characteristics:
Medium vigor. Spreading, open. Terminal bearer. Very productive. Priam was the third release from the PRI Co Op.
Prima, USPP #Reissue 28,435
(Also known as: Co Op 2)
Parentage / Origin:
PRI 14-510 x NJ 123249; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1970
Harvest / Season:
Description: Medium to large fruit with dark red blush over yellow. Juicy white flesh with mild subacid flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Disease-resistant variety which is immune to scab and resistant to fire blight, cedar apple rust and mildew.
Primate
Parentage / Origin:
New York, c. 1840
Harvest / Season: Harvest: early September, Season: September- October
Description: Highly regarded early American summer eating apple. Medium-large, smooth, light green fruit, crisp, juicy, tart.
Tree Characteristics:
Hardy tree bears heavily.
Princess
Parentage / Origin:
NJ75 x DIR101T117; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op)
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early September
Description: Medium size. Round to oblate round. Yellow to whitish pale yellow skin. Fine, crisp, breaking texture. Very spicy, very juicy, very aromatic. May develop off-flavor in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately vigorous. Upright growth habit. Immune to scab. Resistant to fireblight, cedar rust, and mildew. Susceptible to frog-eye leaf spot.
Parentage / Origin:
Starking Delicious x PRI 610-2; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1972
Harvest / Season:
Description: Medium in size. 65% red blush over yellow background. Crisp, coarse, mildly subacid. White to slightly greenish flesh. Good flavor and quality. Will store for three months. Fruit hangs well.
Tree Characteristics:
Immune to scab, resistant to blight, mildew and rust.
Pristine ®, USPP #9881
(Also known as: Co Op 32)
Parentage / Origin:
Co Op 10 x Camuzat; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1994
Harvest / Season:
Description: Beautiful lemon-yellow apple with a perfect finish. This high quality apple is very productive and is a good keeper for an early apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Pumpkin Sweet
Parentage / Origin:
Connecticut, 1834
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - December
Description: Prized for baking, good for canning or eating. Yellow skin marbled with greenish-yellow and a brown flush. Sweet, nonacid flesh is crisp and juicy.
