Cox Orange Pippins Ribston Pippin Seedling,c

Found by Lloyd Lonborg. Similar to Golden Delicious, but larger, crisper and better for the Pacific Northwest. Large, crisp and juicy yellow fruit with pinkish blush. Good for fresh eating and cooking. Can store for 3 months if picked before over-ripe. Scab resistant. Moderately vigorous tree is self-fruitful, always reliable and highly productive.

CHRISTMAS PINK Ettersberg, California 1940

Nov 10

Dec 25

A bright, rosy coloured apple with red flesh. This medium to large apple has translucent skin glowing with the pink aura of the sweet tart flesh. Although it is quite brusk when picked, by Christmas it has become quite sweet, taking on an increasingly intense colour both inside and out. It can get to be watermelon-red inside with pockets of deeper coloured watercore enhancing the sweetness. An Albert Etter creation, saved from extinction by Ram Fishman of Green Mantle Nursery.


CORTLAND Geneva, N.Y. 1915

Cook, cider

Oct 10

Jan

12

Developed by S A Beach at the N Y State Agricultural Experimental Station. Ben Davis x McIntosh made in 1898. The apples are large, roundish, oblate, skin attractive red, darkly striped. Bloom is heavy. McIntosh type with sweet, vinous, crisp, tender, juicy flavor, but not as aromatic. Very white crisp flesh; one of the best salad apples because it doesn't brown quickly. The tree is an early, heavy annual bearer and very hardy. Hangs on the tree better than McIntosh Nov to Feb Pollination Day =


CORTLAND SPUR probably Starkspur (LaMont Cultivar)

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15.2

Cook, cider

16

Bright red fruit. Pure white flesh that will not brown. Fresh use: cooks well; good for cider and pies. Trees are heavy bearers. Ripens late Sept. Zone 4 to 6. Spur bearer. US Plant patent # 4800.

Pollination Day =16

COX, CHERRY - Denmark. 1950

Oct 16

15

A more or less solid red sport of Cox' s Orange Pippin. Often shows dark red stripes and splashes on the solid red. Keeps in storage a month longer. Spur bearer.

Pollination Day =15

COX'S ORANGE PIPPIN England. c. 1829

Oct 12

Jan

14

One of the finest apples ever grown, it is a Ribston Pippin seedling. Well known, classic, very fine dessert apple. Also excellent for all-round processing. Flavour enhanced by ripening off the tree. Fruit medium sized, pale green with red stripes, flushed orange. Firm, tender, juicy flesh. Distinctive aroma and flavour. Susceptible to scab and canker. . Ripens mid September. Keeps until Dec. In England, where the apple is king of fruits, Cox has long been regarded as the richest in flavor. A medium - sized English variety requiring special care to grow in England

Taylor, the modern English authority on apples, says in THE APPLES OF ENGLAND, "all characters so admirably blended and balanced as to please the palate and nose as no other apple can do . . . .the greatest apple of this age." Bears excellently trained as vertical or oblique cordon. Also makes a superb apple compote. Cox has been bred often to get superior progeny, many of these which are in our list of apples; Cherry Cox, Ellison's Orange, Freyberg, Golden Nugget, Holstein, Ingrid Marie, Karmijn de Sonnaville, Kent, Kidd’s Orange Red, Laxton’s Fortune, Elstar

COX'S QUEEN England 1973

Oct 12

15

A new patented self fertile clone of Cox Orange Pippin, this variety is a more heat resistant and more fruitful sport of Cox's Orange with larger fruit of similar flavor. Red blush is even more than Cox, but not as red as Cherry Cox. The preferred strain of Cox’s Orange Pippin in England. Fewer problems with leaf spot and bitter pit than common Cox. It sets big crops of delicious fruit each year. The tree is 15% less vigourous than Cox Orange.

COX, RED

Similar to Cox.

CRESTON (8M-15-10) Summerland, BC 1985

Oct 15

Dec 15

14

(Golden Delicious x NJ 381049). Harvested in the 3^rd to 4^th week of September; large, high quality fruit similar to Jonagold in appearance (orange stripes on a yellow background) but rated better in texture and flavour; stores for 2 months in air storage and 4 to 5 months in CA; yield is good, but it tends to be alternate bearing. In taste tests, it finishes in the top two for crispness, juiciness, sweetness and flavour


DAVE’S DELIGHT Sunbury, Ohio, USA recent

A cross of Melrose X Suncrisp by David Orndorf of Ohio.

Can have sugars about 20% and seems to be quite cold hardy having survived - 20 degrees some years ago.  Only Ed Fackler is currently in possession of this wood and I would request that you not propogate the variety other than for your own use as it may have commercial potential. Everything about it is good other than size. It is about the size of a tennis ball and ripens late [about 10/25 here in zone 5b]. Super sweet, precocious, and an annual bearer and I think has some disease resistance. A hurricane will not blow them off the tree.

DELBARD ESTIVALE (Delcorf Estivale, Delbarestivale)France. 1950

Developed by the Delbard nursery, this is a very successful attempt to improve on Golden Delicious. It is very attractive in appearance, with the light yellow/green of Golden Delicious overlaid with lovely red and orange stripes. Estivale is an early apple variety, grown commercially on a small scale in France and England, and usually available in early to mid September.  Whilst still a sharp apple, Estivale is inherently sweeter with a better balance of sweet and sharp than most.

The flavour, being sweet but with a bit more acid to it than Golden Delicious, is rather more refreshing. There is a hint of strawberry and even pear. The flesh is cream, and quite crisp when fresh. Its main drawback is that it bruises quite easily, but it does not go soft within a couple of days of picking. In short, this is a pleasant summery apple, and one of the best early apple varieties.

DISCOVERY Essex England, 1949.

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14.0

Cook

Sept 6

14

Possibly Worcester Pearmain xBeauty of Bath One of the best early apples. Medium size, brilliant red-striped fruit, yellow background. Crisp, juicy flesh, often pink stained; excellent flavor with a hint of strawberry. Round, slightly flattened. Early season eating and market apple. Good for fresh eating or sauce. Not a keeper. Fruit tends to crack. Hardy compact tree is a natural semi-dwarf. It is a spur and tip bearer. It is rather slow to come into bearing. Some resistance to scab. Originated in England around 1900. Ripens mid-August depending on location


DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG,(Borovinka, Charlamowsky) Russia, 1700,.

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12.0

Cook

Aug 15

7

Introduced into England c. 1815. Good cooking apple, fair dessert apple. Very beautiful, medium to large sized greenish yellow with bright red stripes, splashes and russetted dots. Flesh fine, firm and juicy. Flavour tart, brisk and refreshing, first class. Keeps for only a few weeks. Tree is very hardy and vigourous, early and abundant bearer. Disease resistant.
One of a group of four pioneer Russian apples brought to the United States in 1935 when the London Horticultural Society sent them to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston. (The other three were Emperor Alexander, Red Astrachan and Tetofsky). (In England it was often used for tarts in early July.) An old pie apple still widely grown in Europe where it has always been valued for its exceptional tree hardiness, its early bearing and wide adaptability.
ELLISON'S ORANGE Lincolnshire, England, 1911.

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14.8

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16

A cross of Cox's Orange Pippin and Calville Blanc d'Hiver raised by the Rev. Charles C. Ellison at his vicarage in Bracebridge, England, and introduced in 1911.

Dessert apple. Medium sized, golden-yellow with crimson stripes. Tender, juicy flesh with spicy anise flavour. Oblong, golden yellow apple with crimson stripes, a very juicy, aromatic dessert fruit, very popular in England as an earlier season Cox's Orange type.

ELSTAR – Netherlands 1972

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16.0

Cook

Oct 6

Dec

15

Raised by T.Visser at the Instituut voor de Veredeling van Tuinbouwgewassen, Wageningen (IVT). (Golden Delicious X Ingrid Marie-a Danish seedling of Cox). Intensely flavored, very honeyed, sweet, crisp, juicy flesh, with beautiful texture. Planted extensively in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. Also in Italy and Washington, USA. Ripens in early October. It is medium-large, round-conical, with yellow skin striped with red. It is good for fresh desserts and salads as it does not go brown when exposed to the air.

EMPIRE – Geneva, NY, USA 1966

Cider

Nov 1

Mar

12

A recent McIntosh-type New York State Agricultural Experimental Station introduction (McIntosh X Red Delicious) first fruiting in 1954. Excellent eating quality, ripening with Delicious. Striking, bright red flush with waxy bloom. On Dr. R. D. Way's list of 20 favorite dessert apples. Crisp, clean taste of fruit; sweet, with hint of McIntosh flavor, quite scented; tough skin. Resists bruising, stores better than McIntosh. Pick early-mid-October. Season November - Jan.-March. Spur bearer

ENTERPRISE (Coop 30) Purdue University, Indiana 1992.

14

This new scab resistent apple is large, round, deep maroon red in colour with a good sugar-acid balance. Texture is breaking crisp, ripening early October. Tree is spreading and vigourous. Highly productive. Enterprise is a better keeper than Liberty, but also requires a longer growing season. Eating quality somewhat like Idared. Pollination Day =14

ERWIN BAUR Muncheberg Germany, near Berlin, 1928.

Oct 20

Nov

Jan

9.1

Dessert apple. Medium size fruit, deep yellow skin with stripes. Flesh especially hard and crisp with sweet aromatic flavour. A good sized open-pollinated seedling of Oldenburg named after the founder of The Institute of Plant Breeding in that town. A late variety, lightly striped red over yellow, it has especially hard and crisp flesh with the high flavor of Cox' s Orange. Highly recommended by the late H. Fred Janson of Toronto who regarded it as the best late winter apple out of a collection of over 500 principally foreign varieties. Spur bearer

ESOPUS SPITZENBURG Esopus, N.Y., 1790.

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Nov 5

Mar

15

In the fall of 1790, Thomas Jefferson returned to Monticello and ordered twelve Esopus Spitzenberg apple trees from the famous William Prince Nursery at Flushing, Long Island. Even before the Revolutionary War, Americans knew about the apple and in 1824 when Michael Floy, an early pomologist, sent a group of American fruit trees to the London Horticultural Society, he described Spitzenberg " as the finest eating apple in the world when perfectly ripe." Even today its hard, crisp, juicy, yellowish flesh with a rich aromatic flavor makes it one of the best to eat out of hand. The skin is brilliant orange red with gray spots, a beautiful sight on the tree. "Spitz" is believed to be a parent of Jonathan, itself a choice dessert apple. Connoisseurs' dessert apple of great beauty and exquisite flavour. Improves radically with storage, best at Christmas. Light bearer, disease susceptible. This classic American apple would hardly seem a candidate for cooking, but are sufficiently tart to retain the special richness of the fresh fruit.


ETTERS GOLD Ettersberg, California 1940

Cook

Oct