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Description: Pleasant flavor, flesh like McIntosh. Juicy.
Tree Characteristics:
Productive, annual bearer.
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Rambo
(Also known as: Winter Rambo)
Parentage / Origin:
USA, late 1700's / Dates back to the late 1500's
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September Season: September - Nov / Ripens in August
Description: Fruit with a pale yellow skin streaked faint red by the sun. Tender, sub-acid flesh. It is lightly ribbed on the body and prominently ribbed at the eye. Usually asymmetrical in shape. The yellowish flesh is fine grained and firm with a subacid, slightly sweet flavor
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Ramsdell Sweet
(Also known as: English Sweet)
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October
Description: Red apple of good size and very good quality. In season from mid-autumn to mid-winter. Skin thin, rather tough, smooth yellow nearly overspread with an attractive dark red with a blue bloom. Flesh tinged with yellow firm, fine, tender, juicy, very sweet, quality good to very good.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is a pretty good grower and an early bearer. Nearly annual bearer of not very uniform in size and quality fruits.
Raritan
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid-August
Description: Red, good quality. Becomes sweet when allowed to ripen fully.
Tree Characteristics:
Scab-resistant.
Razor Russet
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September
Description: A great russet apple with excellent flavor. Medium sized with golden bronze skin, almost entirely covered with a yellowish brown russet. Flesh is firm, slightly coarse yellowish white. Remarkable for its sugar content. Great for fresh eating and for cooking.
Parentage / Origin:
Russia, introduced to England via Sweden 1816, then to USA 1835.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late July - August; Season: August - September
Description: Eating, cooking and cider apple. Medium sized, crimson coloured, flesh is juicy, tart and crisp with good flavor. Very short storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Very productive every other year.
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Red Baron
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Daniels Red Duchess; University of Minnesota, 1970
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early to mid-September; Season: September-November
Description: Medium size. Coarse, dry-ish flesh. Pear-flavored. Acceptable mild (non-tart) cooking apple. Not very juicy. Orange blush over yellow, resembling traditional peach coloring.
Tree Characteristics:
Very productive. Moderate vigor. Very early bearing tree. Fat spurs, excellent tree shape.
Red Berlepsch
Parentage / Origin:
Ananas Reinette x Ribston Pippin; Germany 1880
Harvest / Season:
Description: Crisp, juicy, aromatic and fine-textured white flesh with a high Vitamin C content.
Tree Characteristics:
Red Bietigheimer
(Also known as: Bietigheimer)
Parentage / Origin:
Germany, 1881
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - October
Description: Large fruit is pale yellow to green overlaid with red. Firm, juicy white flesh is coarse and crisp with subacid flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Red Bouquet Delicious
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season:
Description: Fruit has dark red skin. Flesh is crisper and has better flavor than regular Red Delicious.
Description: One of the best for eating fresh, for apple butter, and cider - an all purpose apple. Apple is large, round, and some will be a bit conical. Red and greenish yellow with stripe and white dots. Very aromatic, firm, and crisp, very rich unusual pleasing taste.
Tree Characteristics:
Strong and vigorous grower, but easy to manage.
