Apple Package #6 (old varieties) -- 10 trees --
$185*
*Special prices apply only to the combinations listed
in our Special
Price Apple Packages |
| Variety |
Hardiness |
Parentage |
Color |
Season |
Description |
Code |
| Alexander |
E |
Russian importation |
Red or striped |
Mid |
Large size, good cooking qualities. (Great pie apple!)
Ripens continuously over several weeks. |
b, l, r
DRs |
| Chenango
Strawberry |
M |
Old American, unknown |
Yellow with red striping |
Early-mid |
Beautiful fruit with an exaggerated "Delicious" shape.
Excellent dessert quality. Annual bearer, ripening over long season. |
a, e, r |
| Grimes
Golden |
M-P |
Unknown |
Golden yellow |
Mid-late |
Given the rating of "very good to best" by Beach in The
Apples of New York. Excellent fresh eating. Nicely textured, crisp,
aromatic. Not a good keeper. |
e, o, $ |
| Hadlock
Reinette |
M |
McIntosh X Golden Russet |
Bronze |
Late |
Juicy, flavorful. Flesh firm and fine textured. Good
for eating or cider. Similar to Golden Russet. |
c, e, k
DRs |
| Jenner
Sweet |
V |
Fameuse X Crab |
Yellow, red stripes |
Early-mid |
Good flavored, sweet apple. Similar to Fameuse. |
c. e. j |
| Scott
Winter |
V |
Vermont seedling |
Red |
Mid |
Flesh tinged with yellow, sometimes stained with red.
Very juicy, somewhat tart in early part of season, becoming milder toward
season's end. Tree bears at a young age. |
j, y |
| Tolman
Sweet |
V |
Sweet Greening X Old Russet |
Yellow |
Late |
A hard, sweet-flesh apple, locally well-known and liked.
Tree is a good grower and long lived. |
e, v, k |
| Westfield
Seek-No-Further |
V |
New England origin |
Red |
Late-mid |
Beach rates this "very good to best," a rare distinction
in his Apples of New York. It flourishes in well-drained, gravelly
or loamy soil. Flesh is rich-tasting and plesantly aromatic. Good all-purpose
household apple. |
b, e, u, s |
| Wealthy |
V |
Cherry Crab X Sops of Wine |
Greenish-yellow striped with bright red |
Late |
Good tasting when freshly picked and well-suited for
sauce and other home processing. Tree stays small and is a heavy bearer. |
b, e, s, p, $ |
| Yellow
Transparent |
E |
Russian importation |
Yellow |
Early |
Begins to ripen in July, is excellent for cooking (some
people say it makes the best sauce) and good for eating. Found in many
old orchards of upstate NY. Scab resistant. |
b, e, s
DRs |