Cox Orange Pippins Ribston Pippin Seedling,c

One of the first apple varieties developed by Albert Etter and perhaps his best. This isa hybrid of Wagner and Transcendental crab. It is a medium to large apple with a handsome clear golden colour, the original name was Allgold. The eating quality is excellent, the flesh remains crisp and juicy even after months in storage. It holds up very well in cooking and is especially gold in pies. The most impressive virtue of Etter’s Gold is its outstanding productivity. In Nov. the original tree in Ettersberg appears totally laden with fruit while the ground beneath it is covered with windfalls. A reliable annual producer with a spur type growth habit.

EVE’S DELIGHT Hood River, OR, 1983

Eve’s Delight is a sport of Spokane Beauty and so is similar in color, shape and type to "Spokane Beauty" an unpatented, striped partially red variety of Delicious type. Enormous fruit, reaching 2 lb

Large size as compared with "Spokane Beauty" (unpatented.)

Resistance to scab and mildew.

Less tendency to bitter pit.

Tree is vigorous, upright but spreading with good crotch angle.

Tree adapts well to central leader training.

The fruit color is attractive similar to the striped Delicious.

Tip bearer

FIESTA (Red Pippins) England 1996

Cox Orange Pippins X Idared. Fruit colour is 75% red over green background. Blooms mid to late season. Tangy, aromatic sweet flavour. Good keeper storing up to 6 weeks. Disease resistant. Ripens late September. Easier to grow than many Cox types. . Partially self-fruitful. US Plant Patent #7956.

Also sold in Pick mid-September and will store well into April. Flavour similar to Cox, but crisper and storing better. Crops twice the volume of Cox. Fiesta is partially self-fertile and has a pendulus habit.

From East Malling (Reg. No. T31/31, October 1996).

FREYBERG – Greytown, New Xealand 1934

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19

16.2

Oct 30

14

(Cox's Orange Pippin x Golden Delicious) by J.H. Kidd. It honours a Governor General Freyberg from New Zealand. This is recommended over Cox. The flavour is more sprightly and more sophisticated. The fruit is larger, better looking and it is juicier than either parent. A small, golden, reinette-type apple. Georges Delbard, of the famous French nursery, calls it "a veritable cocktail of flavors with the merest touch of anise and producing a juice that combines the taste of apple, pear and banana." The flesh is creamy white, lightly acidulous and sugary. The tree is small, vigorous, with upright branches, spur-bearing, productive

GALA New Zealand, 1934.

Sept 30

Jan

16

(Kidd's Orange Red x Golden Delicious). Fruit medium sized, yellow skin, heavily striped with red, glossy and does not bruise easily. Flesh yellow, fine, firm, crisp, very juicy, very sweet. Tree vigorous, long branches, heavy spur bearing habit, yields are precocious, heavy and regular. Excellent for fresh eating. A very pretty apple, yellow skin patterned with bright orange-red. Partially Self Fruitful
GALA, ROYAL Matamata, New Zealand, 1974

Oct

Jan

16

A red sport of Gala. Fruit size medium, oval with a slight crown. Skin bright scarlet over golden yellow. Glossy, very attractive. Flesh yellow, firm, crisp and juicy, resists bruising. Excellent quality, blossoms frost resistant, spurs freely. Crops are regular and heavy. Late season.
GASCOYNES SCARLET Kent, England 1887

14

Raised by W. Gascoigne of Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent, and introduced by Bunyard in 1871. Received first class certificate award in 1887 by R.H.S. Good looking, red flushed, deep blood red. Good regular size. Dual purpose apple. Pick mid-September – keeps until January.
GENEVA 163 Ottawa, 1930.

17

17

13.5

Cider

Sept

M

Choice for cider, jelly and blending in juice for colour.A medium-size crabapple with red flesh and very tart flavour.Tree is hardy and scab resistant.Its red leaves make it beautiful for a home garden. Believed to have been bred by Frank Kirby in Victoria, BC

GLOWING HEART Hamilton, Ont 1990’s

Bred by Fred Janson, the chap who helped start NAFEX and who also bred Pink Princess (formerly Pink Lady) looks like a beet both outside and in, ie very deep red/purple. It is early, about Sept. 1, and tart

GOLDEN LASA (TN 79-108-04) France recent

(Ed Goud Golden X PRI 1956-6). Yellow Golden simile apple, scab resistant, one week after Golden Delicious.

(under plant patent) Pollination Day =

GOLDEN NUGGET Nova Scotia, 1949.

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18

16.0

Cook

Oct 10

13.1

A 1932 cross of Golden Russet and Cox's Orange Pippin made not for breeding purposes but for a pollination investigation. Luckily some were used in a subsequent breeding program, and in 1949 Dr. C selected this seedling. J. Bishop, of the Kentville, Nova Scotia Station of the Canadian Department of Agriculture.

Fine eating and excellent culinary apple. Small yellow fruit with orange streaks and splashes. Crisp, juicy flesh with extra sweet, rich, mellow flavour. Vigourous, disease resistant tree. Small, broadly conical long-stemmed apple, predominantly yellow, streaked and splashed with bright orange; sometimes netted and spotted with russet. Sugary sweet, rich, luscious, of a most delicious mellow flavor. Short keeping life. Ripens just before Cox's Orange.

GOLDEN ONE (cv. X.GC106) France

14

Golden Delicious tetraploïd X Cassou. Self-thinning corymb (STC) means only one fruit by cluster without hand thinning. Yellow medium size fruit. High sugar Long keeping (better than golden). Medium to late bloom. (under plant patent) Pollination Day =
GOLDEN RUSSET, NY 1845.

Cook, cider

Oct 25

Feb

9

Seedling of English Russet. In the 19th century, this variety was many times voted first rank among dessert and keeping apples. Also excellent single variety cider apple. The fruit is medium-sized, russetted skin, varying from grey-green to bronze with a copper-orange cheek. The flesh is fine grained and crisp, with sugary juices. Scab resistant.
One of the most famous of the old American russet apples, Golden Russet, before the turn of the twentieth century, was always voted in the first rank among dessert and keeping apples. It was recommended as a part of all plantings by the Michigan Pomological Society commencing with its first report in 1870. A medium-sized apple, its russet skin varies from grey-green to a golden bronze with a bright coppery orange cheek. The flesh is fine-grained, yellowish, crisp, with an exceedingly sugary juice that sticks to one's fingers like candy. An excellent keeper; under proper moisture conditions in common storage it will keep in sound condition until spring. Often a tip bearer. Ripe very late October hanging on the tree even after the leaves have fallen.

GOLDEN SUPREME Idaho, USA 1960

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15.0

Oct 10

Feb

16

Appearance is similar to Golden Delicious with smooth yellow, russet resistant skin. Creamy white, firm, juicy flesh with good flavour. Vigorous, non-spur type tree has a tendency to biennial bearing which can be controlled by good bloom management. Requires a pollinator. Ripens 10 days before Golden Delicious. Pollination Day =16


GOLDGELB Germany



GRANNY SMITH Ryde, New South Wales, fruiting by 1868

Nov 5

13

Originated in 1868 from some discarded apples, believed from pip of French Crab bought from Tasmania, which Mrs. Thomas Smith of Eastwood Ryde, Paramatta Rive, New South Wales, Australia. The most popular Australian apple, used for both eating and cooking. The skin is a beautiful pure grass green, with a rugged shiny surface like peened metal, sometimes with a bright reddish blush and purple dots. Hard, crisp, juicy white flesh, sometimes with citron-like flavor, keeping right through the winter and refreshing eating in the spring. Ripens very late - November. Should be grown in warmer regions and not in a Northern State like Michigan where the Fall season can start early. Mrs. Smith was born in England in 1800 and emigrated in 1838. In 1860 she found seedling tree growing in creek where she had tipped out last of some apples brought back from Sydney. She used its fruit for cooking, but boys claimed they were good to eat fresh. Tree was propagated and later family increased their orchards and marketed fruit in Sydney, where proved popular and ideal for export market. Now grown in all warmer fruit regions.
GRANSPUR Brewster, Wash

A new and distinct variety of `Granny Smith` apple tree characterized by its semi-spur growth characteristics, with node spacings approximately intermediate those of `Stardard` and `Hannaford` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,453), and by its fruit having distinct dark green stripes imposed on a lightly mottled green background.

It originated as a genetic bud sport on a Summerland strain of non-spur, unpatented, Granny Smith apple tree in the Calvin L. Cooper orchard located near Brewster, Wash. The new variety of apple tree is somewhat more compact in structure than is its parent, but otherwise is generally similar to the latter with respect to trunk, branches, leaves and flowers. However, its fruit is uniquely characterized by its property of maturing early, i.e. up to 14 days earlier than regular Granny Smith variety. This property is evidenced by early loss of the characteristic white spots from its skin, and in particular by early and substantial rise in soluble solids content and early, rapid, and substantial drop in total acidity. It also is noticeably lighter in color.

GRAVENSTEIN Italy or Germany, early 1600s.USA 1790.

Cook, cider

Sept 12

Nov

6

First class dessert apple, unexcelled for cooking, wonderful for pies, sauces, juice and cider. Well known for flavour. Large tree is vigourous, tends toward biennial bearing. Many different strains of Gravenstein, including named sports Teal Crimson, Yellow, Henry, Kozlowski, Rosebrook and IR2-46-1. The best early apple. Large, round to slightly flattened orangish yellow fruit with red stripes. Thin skin. Crisp, juicy, fine grained, yellowish white flesh. Known for fine flavor. Keeps until early November. Large, vigorous, upright tree. Triploid. Pick frequently because of uneven ripening and premature drop.
GRAVENSTEIN (Goat Farm) .

Sept 12

NOv

6

A Yellow Gravenstein tree grafted from those growing on the old Goat Farm of Dr. and Colonel Bryant (1930’s) above Beaver Point Road in Fulford, Salt Spring Island, BC.

GRAVENSTEIN (MLC- Mary Lou Cuddy)

Sept 12

NOv

6

A Yellow Gravenstein tree grafted from a tree in the home of Mary Lou Cuddy on Isabella Point Rd., Fulford, Salt Spring Island, BC. Called by her kids TOTYEN, it is highly recommended.


GRAVENSTEIN, ROSEBROOK

Sept 12

NOv

6

Sport of Gravenstein which is more heavily red striped. No difference in flavour. Lively red stripes on yellow background. All purpose. Late blooming. Subject to winter injury in severy climates. Zone 6-10

GRAVENSTEIN, RED Germany 1873

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20

Sept 15

Nov 15

6T

The best early apple. A red sport of Gravenstein. Large, round to slightly irregular red fruit. Thin skin. Crisp, juicy, fine grained, yellowish white flesh. Known for fine flavor. Unexcelled for cooking. Makes wonderful pies, desserts, sauces, and cider. Keeps until early November. Large, vigorous, upright tree. Pick frequently because of uneven ripening and premature drop. Ripens September. Gravenstein’s quality is all that saves it from extinction as it is a most frustrating apple to grow commercially and make a profit. The trees usually contribute only marginally to an orchard’s profitability. Spur bearer.

GRAVENSTEIN, RED (Breuer) Germany 1873

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20

Sept 15

Nov 15

6T