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Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October - early November; Season: November - March
Description: Large, yellow-green fruit. Firm, crisp, juicy, tart. Flavor develops in storage
Tree Characteristics:
Triploid
Ribston Pippin
Parentage / Origin:
Yorkshire, England 1769
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September , Season: October - Jan
Description: Yellow, flushed bright orange, red blush. Hard, crisp, fine-grained, sugary, rich and aromatic.
Tree Characteristics:
Richared
Parentage / Origin:
Whole tree sport of Delicious; Discovered in Washington
Harvest / Season:
Description: Only fair color (blush), but better tasting than most modern strains. Flavor is rich and complex, with hint of coconut. Shape is bloated compared to typey Delicious, with wide middle. Pressure tests below modern Delicious strains.
Tree Characteristics:
Lanky, strong, non-spur grower.
Richelieu
Parentage / Origin:
Ottawa-521 x Ottawa-541; Agriculture Canada, Quebec, 1990
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid-September
Description: Medium size. Attractive, juicy, crisp. Very good flavor. Mild to subacid with high sugar and aroma.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately vigorous, spreading. Very Productive, annual, but somewhat slow to start bearing. Very hardy. Susceptible to rusts, tolerant to fireblight and mildew.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - October: Season: September - November
Description: Very round fruit, medium to very large, with handsomely striped to almost solid red, thick skin. A favorite for baking and drying, and outstanding as a baked apple. Inferior for eating due to dryish flesh and very mild, unremarkable flavor. A good keeper on and off the tree. Once a major commercial variety, now losing market share.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree medium sized and spreading with age. Terminal bearing, difficult to train. Spur types are often desirable. Precocious and annual producer.Scab resistant.
Rouville
Parentage / Origin:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Quebec, 1983
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid-August
Description: Red over pale green-yellow. Oblate. Juicy.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous, upright-spreading. Precocious, consistent bearer. Resistant to scab.
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Roxbury Russet
Parentage / Origin:
Roxbury, Massachusetts, early 1600's
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - early October, Season: October - April
Description: Greenish-bronze and yellow fruit. The classic russet, like Golden Russet but even higher in sugar (12.87%), and a bigger producer. Possibly the oldest named variety in America.
