(Apple)

Originating as a seedling in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the early nineteenth century, 'Smokehouse' is still prized for its tasty fruits and its adaptability to diverse soils and climates. Its medium to large, spherical to conical apples have greenish-yellow skin that blushes dull-red as they ripen in late summer and early fall. The pale yellow, crisp, fine-textured flesh of this dessert and cooking apple is juicy, tender, and aromatic, with a full, mildly tart flavor. The fruits are borne on relatively...

(Apple, Red Eating Apple, Spartan Apple)

The result of a 1926 cross between 'McIntosh' and 'Yellow Newtown Pippin', 'Spartan' produces tasty, late-ripening apples on trees that are resistant to scab, mildew, and fire blight. The medium to large, flattish apples have yellow skin that blushes deep purple-red blush as they ripen in early to mid-fall. The white, crisp, fine-textured flesh of this dessert and cooking apple has a sweet-tart flavor similar to that of 'McIntosh'. Harvested fruits keep until mid-winter. This self-fertile variety...

(Apple)

This late-ripening, long-keeping apple originated in Ohio in the mid-nineteenth century. The large, spherical to conical fruits have dull, pale-yellow skin that develops dull-red mottling and blushing as they ripen in early to mid-fall. The hard, fine-textured, pale greenish-yellow flesh of this dessert and cooking apple is juicy and mildly tart. Harvested fruits keep until late winter. Stark apple trees grow vigorously and are reliable annual producers, but are also susceptible to fire blight. Plant...

(Apple, Eating Apple, State Fair Apple)

Bred at the University of Minnesota in Zone 3, ‘State Fair’ is a very hardy cooking and dessert apple with juicy, tart yellow flesh and red skin. The harvest comes in late summer and the fruits should be eaten fresh from the tree and not picked all at once because they are not good keepers in storage. They are good for cooking. This is a semi-dwarf to medium-sized, deciduous tree, susceptible to fire blight, a bacterial disease that often kills young, rapidly growing shoots. This cultivar also has...

(Apple, Cooking Apple)

There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own apple trees. The domestic apple is most commonly a medium-sized tree with a rounded to oval canopy. It originates from southeastern Europe, Siberia, and southwestern Asia and has been in cultivation for thousands of years. In spring, these trees offer sweet, fragrant flowers of light pink, white or rose, and in fall reward us with crisp, juicy apples.

These fruits have a wide variety of colors, textures and flavors and may be eaten out-of-hand,...

(Apple, Dessert Apple)

There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own apple trees. The domestic apple is most commonly a medium-sized tree with a rounded to oval canopy. It originates from southeastern Europe, Siberia, and southwestern Asia and has been in cultivation for thousands of years. In spring, these trees offer sweet, fragrant flowers of light pink, white or rose, and in fall reward us with crisp, juicy apples.

These fruits have a wide variety of colors, textures and flavors and may be eaten out-of-hand,...

(Apple, Dessert Apple)

This late-ripening, long-keeping apple originated in New York's Hudson Valley in the eighteenth century, and is still considered one of the best for the table. The medium to large, rounded fruits have greenish skin that yellows as they ripen in mid-fall, and that turns deep yellow in storage. The firm, fine-textured, yellow flesh of this dessert apple is juicy and tender with a rich flavor that develops in storage. Harvested fruits keep until late winter. Swaar apple trees are relatively weak-growing...

(Apple, Red Eating Apple, Sweet Sixteen Apple)

Bred in Minnesota in Zone 3, ‘Sweet Sixteen’ is a medium-sized dessert apple with very sweet, crisp flesh and an unusual, aromatic flavor. The skin is yellow, lightly striped with red. The fruits mature in mid-autumn, keep well in cold storage, and are good for baking, sauces and eating fresh. This is a medium-sized very hardy, deciduous tree that bears crops dependably every year.

Like most domestic apples, ‘Sweet Sixteen’ grows and fruits best in full sun and average, well-drained soil. Mulch...

(Apple, Cooking Apple, Dessert Apple)

Rarely grown today, 'Titus Pippin' originated in the early nineteenth century on Long Island, New York, and was once popular in that region. It produces moderate to heavy annual crops of large, oblong to rounded apples with smooth waxy greenish-yellow skin. The fruits may blush salmon-pink as they ripen in early fall. The firm, grainy, yellow flesh of this dessert or cooking apple is crisp, juicy, tender, and aromatic with a sweet-tart flavor. Harvested fruits keep until midwinter. Titus Pippin trees...

(Apple, Cooking Apple, Dessert Apple)

Long a favorite of New England and New York orchardists, 'Tolman Sweet' bears moderate to heavy crops of sweet-flavored cooking apples on durable, exceptionally cold-hardy trees. The medium to large, flattish fruits have pale yellow skin and hard, white, relatively dry flesh that is excellent for steaming. Tolman Sweet apples ripen in early fall and keep until early winter. Plant this antique variety near other late-blooming apples (such as 'Golden Delicious) to insure cross-pollination and fruiting....