Jul 6, 2022
Juicy and sweet as candy. Thought to be a descendant of Red Delicious, this tree regularly sports large fruit with a clean, sweet flavor. Tree is vigorous, upright, and a heavy bearer. Fruit has golden skin with a pink blush.
Jul 6, 2022
Twenty Ounce apple tree produces an all purpose variety that was first exhibited by George Howland of New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1843 at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The Twenty Ounce apple tree was discovered by Howland who noticed the seedling apple on...
Jul 6, 2022
Granny Smith apple tree is one of the best known antiques from Australia. It was discovered by Maria Ann Smith back in 1868, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling discovered near their creek. The Granny Smith apple is thought to be a seedling from a waste...
Jul 6, 2022
Bred as a cross between Delicious and Deacon Jones apples, the result is a tree that yields sweet-tasting apples that will make some of the best cider you’ve ever tasted. Medium-large fruit is shaped like Red Delicious but larger. Keeps well in proper storage. Antique...
Jul 6, 2022
Ashmeads Kernel apple tree is known as an old English winter russet apple. The first Ashmeads Kernel apple tree, originated from a seed planted around 1700 by a Dr. Thomas Ashmead in Gloucester. The Ashmeads Kernel apple is medium size, golden-brown skin with a...
Jul 6, 2022
Recently home gardens and small orchards have renewed interest in the Golden Russet apple trees for its distinctive appearance and intense flavor. The Golden Russet was prized as the “champagne” of old-time cider apples, also delicious for eating out of...
Jul 6, 2022
Snow Fameuse apple tree produces one of the oldest and most desired dessert apples, a parent of the aromatic McIntosh. The Snow Fameuse apple trees were found in almost every French settlement, in the late 1700’s, as the Snow apple was planted 1,000 miles in...
Jul 6, 2022
Jonagold apple tree is another great apple from the Fruit Testing Station. A cross between the Golden Delicious and Jonathan, it is now widely grown. The Jonagold apple is often a large fruit with red blush over yellow-green skin. Cream colored flesh, breaking, juicy....
Jul 6, 2022
Wolf River apple tree originated on the farm of W.A. Springer in Wolf River, WI in 1875. The Wolf River apples are enormous fruits, often 1 lb. or more, famous for one pie from one fruit. Similar to the Alexander, but a bit larger and rounder. Wolf River apples have...
Jul 6, 2022
Tolman Sweet apple tree is one of America’s oldest varieties. No one knows when and where it originated, but some think it may have been a cross between Sweet Greening and a Russet that was found growing in Dorchester, MA well before 1700. Tolman Sweet apples are...
