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Description: Very sweet flavored yellow apple with pink-red blush on side of apple facing the sun. Flesh is crunchy with an interesting and quiet chew. Blocky, irregular-shaped apple. Lenticels are pronounced and dark, but sparse, giving the apple a speckled appearance.
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Summer Mac
Parentage / Origin:
Not a sport of McIntosh
Harvest / Season:
Description:
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Summer Pearmain
Parentage / Origin:
Open pollinated English Pearmain
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Midseason
Description: Superb, rich flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Weak growth habit. Susceptible to fireblight.
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Summer Rambo
(Also known as: Rambour Franc, Lorraine, Rombour d'ete. No relation to "Rambo")
Parentage / Origin:
France, 1535
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - November
Tree Characteristics:
vigorous tree bears heavily and early. Some disease resistance.
Summer Rose
Parentage / Origin:
Northern Spy Seedling; New Jersey, 1806.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - November
Description: Excellence both for eating and stewing. The size is moderate, the form flat, the skin smooth of a beautiful yellow resembling yellow wax, blended with red in streaks and blotches. The flesh is sweet, sprightly, and juicy.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is spreading in form, giving good exposure to the sun and is very fruitful.
Parentage / Origin:
Cross of Mollie's Delicious; New Jersey Experiment Station. Introduced in 1982
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Description: Fruits are large to very large, of angular, oblong-conic shape, with glossy skin blushed 70-100% brilliant red. The coarse, cream colored flesh is crisp, sweet, and good fresh from the tree when the fruitsare ripe. Fruits hang well, but lose quality quickly and become mealy if not harvested. Storage life is short.
Tree Characteristics:
Scab susceptible.
Suncrisp (NJ55 cv.), USPP #8,648
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Harvest / Season: Harvest: One week after Golden Delicious
Description: Good looking yellow apple with a 0-40% orange-red blush. Flavor is sweet yet mildly subacid, said to be intense. Cream colored flesh, not prone to browning. Fruit can be stored up to 6 months in cold storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Susceptible to mildew, blister spot, soft scald. Thinning is necessary to avoid biennial bearing.
Sundance
(Also known as: Co Op 29)
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x PRI 1050-201 (or 1050NJ1); PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1990
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Eight days after Red Delicious
Description: Medium to large. Pale green skin. Excellent sweet-tart flavor. Keeps four months.
Tree Characteristics:
Medium vigor. Upright growth habit. Early bearer. Immune to scab, resistant to fireblight. Fruit hangs on tree until late November.
Sundown (Cripps II cv.), USPP #8,477
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Lady Williams; Western Australia Ag Dept Breeding Program
Harvest / Season: Harvest: November
Description: Distinctive attractive red with white lenticels. Color varies according to exposure. Flesh is white, crisp, juicy and very sweet. A very good keeper with a long shelf life.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous standard type with the growth pattern being upright with numerous spurs. Precocious, sets well and will size a heavy crop. Possibly slightly biennial.
Sunny Brook
Parentage / Origin:
Heyer 12 x Morden 359; Canada
Harvest / Season:
Description: Medium size. Bright red over yellow. Fair dessert quality. Good cooking apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Very hardy, precocious bearer.
Parentage / Origin:
May be a seedling of Hubbardston
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Description: Uniform and symmetrical shape, beautiful color and pleasant quality makes it an excellent eating apple. Too mild for culinary use. Flesh slightly tinged with yellow, rather firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, mild subacid, good to very good.
