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Apple
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Pick
Date
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Characteristics |
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Arkansas Black
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10/24
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Fruit medium
size, skin red over yellow, deepening to purplish-red or almost black
on exposed side. Very crisp flesh, coarse, greenish-white, flavor
sharp, improving with age. Keeps all winter. |
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Black Twig
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10/20
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Medium to large with green
to yellow skin, flushed red. Flesh is yellow, very firm, fine. The
ultimate in a tart apple. Tannic juice adds kick to cider. Excellent
keeper. |
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Bramley's Seedling
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It should be a deep green
color with faint red striping & should be very firm & very tart (not
for eating "raw"!) but should "fluff" when cooked. |
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Calville Blanc
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10/20
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Classic dessert apple from
France. Light green skinned, with prominent ribs. Very high in Vitamin
C. Superior for all culinary purposes. Not especially crisp or firm.
Tart. |
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Empire
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09/19
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 A
red Delicious/McIntosh cross. Apple is dark red; sweet, juicy, firm
and aromatic. At its peak, Empire “cracks” when you bite it. Good
Fresh. A great apple for kids. |
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Esopus Spitzenberg
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10/10
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A North American antique,
medium-sized red apple of very good to best quality. Long considered
the standard of excellence in the Baldwin class. Believed to be a
parent of Jonathan. |
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Fameuse (Snow Apple)
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10/07
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One of the oldest and most
desirable dessert apples, a parent of the aromatic McIntosh. Medium
sized red apple with snow-white flesh. |
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Fuji
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10/10
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 A
Ralls Janet/Red Delicious cross. Medium sized apple with yellowish-green
skin. Flesh white, firm and crunchy. Best keeping sweet apple in the
world. Spicy, crisp sweetness makes excellent out of hand or as applesauce. |
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Golden Delicious
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09/15
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Known for its large, attractive
yellow skin fruit and its many uses. Most famous as a fresh apple.
Good for snacking. West Virginia 1890. Excellent for sauce, pies,
and juice when mixed with another variety. Sweetly aromatic . |
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Golden Russet
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10/15
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Lovely russet-colored skin
with a slight texture. Extremely dense and sweet. Immensely popular
for eating, but hardly available except from farmer market. This is
an antique variety painted by Rembrandt |
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Granny Smith
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10/20
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 An
antique variety from Australia. Medium sized, grass green, crisp and
tart. A good quality apple, an outstanding keeper with a winning name.
Its tartness comes through when baked or sautéed. Has crisp
bite and tangy flavor. |
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Gravenstein
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Fruit large to medium, skin
thin, tender, greenish-yellow with broken stripes of red. Flesh firm,
crisp, juicy, tart. Good for eating fresh, and one of the best apples
for pies, sauce, and juice. |
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Grimes Golden
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10/03
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A medium to small-sized yellow-skinned
apple of the nineteenth century. Quality similar to Golden Delicious
which is believed to be an offspring. Mild, sweet, spicy flavor. |
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Jonagold
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09/26
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 A
wonderfully flavored, very large with scarlet red over yellow-green
skin, sweet apple. Cream colored flesh-breaking, juicy. Good for pies,
sauce, or fresh. Like Beaujolais wine, Jonagold should be savored
when young. Unique flavor. |
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Jonalicious
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09/29
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Flavor
equal to the richness of Jonathan but a little less tart. Larger,
crisper, and juicier than Jonathan, and a better keeper. One of our
best selling apples with a " on the sour side sugar/acid balance. |
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Jonathan
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08/19
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Tart, rich, real apple flavor.
Offspring of Esopus Spitzenberg, first described in 1826. Many Midwesterners
consider Jonathan the best flavored apple in the world. |
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Kingston Black
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10/15
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Apple crimson over yellow
orange ground color. Makes distinctively-flavored hard cider without
blending. Juice: bittersharp. Cider only, except for the very brave. |
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Law Rome
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10/10
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 Fruit
is a bright cherry-red. The flesh is desirably coarse, cream-color
and essentially free from red coloration or “bleeding” into the flesh.
Tart flavor. Best when blended with other varieties for apple pies
and sauces. |
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Lodi
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07/25
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An excellent early yellow
apple, similar in quality and flavor to yellow Transparent, but larger
and firmer. Matures a few days later than Transparent. |
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Macoun
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09/25
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Generally regarded as the
best flavored of the McIntosh types. Dark red and medium in size.
Flesh is white, richly flavored, aromatic with very excellent fresh
eating quality. One of the best mid-season apples. Keeps well. |
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Maiden Blush
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09/06
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Beautiful apple of pale lemon-yellow
color with crimson blush. Flesh is white, sprightly, quality good. |
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Nehou
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09/15
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Old English
cider apple of the bittersweet class. Apples are soft, medium to small
in size, easily bruised. Good flavor. |
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Northern Spy
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10/20
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Fruit large, attractive,
red and yellow, thin-skinned. Flesh yellowish, rather firm, very tender,
crisp, juicy, sprightly subacid. Stores well. Good in the mouth or
pie. |
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Ozark Gold
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09/04
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Its cream-color semi-firm
flesh is high in quality and flavor. The fruit is similar in shape,
size and color to Golden Delicious, but is more russet-free and matures
earlier. Great for eating out of hand. |
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Paulared
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08/15
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A red fall apple that matures
in summer, Paulared has beautiful solid red blush color far ahead
of other apples. Stores well. Flavor is tart, light to creamy flesh
and is equally good for eating, sauces or pies. |
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Roxbury Russet
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10/04
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A medium-sized, russet-coated
antique. Excellent old American cider apple, a keeper and good for
eating fresh. |
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Royal Gala
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08/20
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 Very
sweet, firm, and exciting. Red Delicious and Cox’s Orange Pippin are
grandparents and Golden Delicious is a parent. Folks with a sweet
tooth, Gala is the best. Great dessert apple. Children love them.Yellow-orange
skin with red stripes |
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Seek-No-Further
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10/05
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Fruit medium size, uniform
skin tough, smooth, deep yellow or greenish, shaded dull red. Flesh
is firm, medium-grained, crisp, rich, complex, sometimes astringent.
Crispest mid-season apple. |
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Sops in Wine
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09/25
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Old English culinary and
cider apple. Fruit medium, skin greenish-yellow flushed purple red,
striped with dark carmine. Flesh soft, fine stained pink; flavor aromatic,
subacid, vinous. |
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Staybrite
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10/22
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A mutation of Double Red
Stayman with a high color factor. Color starts as a rich red blush
and finishes with a much higher percent of full red-colored fruit
than any other Red Stayman. |
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Stayman Winesap
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10/07
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 A
large offspring of Winesap having similar attributes. Excellent
keeper, bruise-resistant, dull red coat. Flavor pleasantly subacid,
aromatic. Great for any use, especially in pies and sauces.
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Supreme Red
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10/07
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 This
apple is now recognized as the “typiest” Red Delicious available.
Fruit takes on its color in the form of a bright, cherry-red blush.
The Supreme Red Delicious variety is said to be the “fanciest” Red
Delicious. |
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Tremblett Bitter
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10/15
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A bittersweet hard cider
apple. Firm, medium sized, very bitter, firm apple. |
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Yarlington Mill
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10/15
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Sweet to bittersweet English
cider apple. Firm, medium sized apples. |
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York Imperial
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10/09
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 Excellent
keeping apple. Was dubbed “Imperial of Keepers” by Charles Downing,
a 19th century pomologist. Often lopsided. Similar in coloring to
Fuji, but not as sweet flavored. |
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Twentieth Century
Asian Pear
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09/10
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Best know of the Asian
Pears. Skin smooth and thin, greenish-yellow mottled with green.
Flesh white, fruity, slightly tart and quite juicy. Also known as
Nijiseiki. Tree growth is upright and spreading. |
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Shinseiki
Asian Pear
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09/05
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Fruit has yellow smooth
skin, flesh bursting with juice. Very sweet. For a difference in
salads add slices of these pears. Can have a slight tartness. Earliest
to ripen |
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Shinko
Asian Pear
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Very flavorful, juicy and
sweet with refreshing crispness. |
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Hosui
Asian Pear
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09/01
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They are called the apple
pear, but in spite of the fact they are crisp when ripe, their texture
and flavor is different from apples. They are juicy and crisp, with
a milder flavor. Golden-brown russett skin with fine texture flesh
with subtle flavor. |
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Cherokee
Blackberries
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06/25
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Thorny,
fruit large, firm and of good quality. |
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Apache
Blackberries
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06/10
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A
high quality fruit, excellent flavor
has slight tart flavor. |
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Montmorency
Cherries
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06/23
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The leading sour cherry. Excellent for pies and
cobbler. Medium size, dark red and excellent flavor.
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Red Lake
Currants
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06/18
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Outstanding
for gourmet jelly. |
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Pixwell
Gooseberries
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06/28
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Excellent
Gooseberries. green to purple-red-pink, makes excellent pie and
preserves. Easy to pick----"pix well" |
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Concord
Grape
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09/01
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A
blue black variety, medium to large compact cluster. |
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Mars Seedless
Grapes
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08/15
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Medium size,
related to Concord, very sweet and enjoyable table grape. |
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Seeyval Blanc
Grapes
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08/23
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French
Hybrid wine grape, yellow white variety. |
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Summer Pearl
Peach
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It has fantastic fruit
quality and excellent flesh firmness, even exceeding that of many
yellow-fleshed varieties. |
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Redhaven
Peach
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07/20
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It's color is 70 - 90%
red over a golden undercolor. The fruit is medium to large. It is
freestone when fully ripe. |
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