Cox Orange Pippins Ribston Pippin Seedling,c

(Laxton's Superb x Cox's Orange by H. Tydaman at the East Mallings Research Station). Yellowish flesh has rich Cox-like flavor with a nice sugar-acid balance. Skin gold with green and red blush and conical shape. Late ripening. Scab-resistant, but prefers dry climate. Flowers ornamental. Keeps until April and by late winter the skin has intensified and the flavour developed equal to Cox. Spur bearer which tends to biennially bear. Pollination Day =16

VANDERPOOL RED Benton County, Oregon 1903

Oct 25

Dec

May

16

This firm, tasty, late season dessert apple has been grown in the Fraser Valley since 1920. The apples are small to medium, bright red, conical with white, crisp, juicy flesh, mildly sub-acid with some sweetness. The tree is a strong compact grower and is resistant to fungal diseases. Dessert apple. Medium-small red fruit. Very firm and flavourful. Stays juicy in storage until April. Often included in early 20th century West Coast orchards. Small, reliably productive tree.
WADHURST PIPPINS Wadhurst, Sussex, England early 1800’s

Cook

Nov 1

Feb

14

A heritage apple variety from Wave Hill Farm, Bridgeman Rd, Salt Spring, thought to be a variety planted by Theordore Trege, the first apple grower on Salt Spring. Fruit, above medium size, sometimes very large, but generally averaging three inches wide, and two inches and three-quarters high; ovate or short Pearmain-shaped, and angular on the sides. Skin, yellow tinged with green on the shaded side, and brownish red streaked with crimson on the side next the sun, and strewed with minute grey dots. Eye, closed, set in a wide, deep, and angular basin. Stamens, basal; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch long, stout, placed in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, and briskly flavoured.
WAGENER Pen Yan, New York 1790s.

Cook, Cider

Nov 15

Apr

9

One of the best late fall varieties for dessert, sauce, cider, juice and storage. Possible parent of Northern Spy. Doesn't shrivel. Medium sized, glossy green, red flushed fruit that is irregularly shaped, five sided and flattened, with glossy, hammered skin. White flesh, very crisp, juicy and tender, resembles Northern Spy in taste. Hardy, scab resistant tree bears well and heavily. Thinning necessary to produce large fruit. Spur bearer.
WALTANA Ettersberg, California 1940

Cook, Cider

Medium to large, variable-sized green apple with thin red striping and crisp, hard, juicy flesh. Requires a long growing season and attains its best flavor after frost. Hangs well on the tree. Excellent for cooking. An Albert Etter variety, which he did not appreciate, so he gave it to his brother Walter and his wife, Ana and named it after them. This is the most widely planted of the Albert Etter varieties. Trees are vigorous, healthy and regular bearers.


WATERMELON (NORTON’S MELON, MELON), New York 1845

16

16

15.0

When it is properly developed the Melon is one of the best dessert apples of its season, as Beach rated this apple. The Melon (many synonyms) besides being crisp, is tender and delicious. Melon originated in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York in the old seedling orchard of Heman Chapin. This orchard was planted about 1800 with seedling grown trees grown from seed brought to East Bloomfield from Connecticut. It was introduced in l845. Fruit large, very beautiful, flushed in strawberry red over pale yellow. Crisp yet melting, juicy flesh; refreshing flavor suggesting perhaps melons or strawberries. Grown for 'fancy trade' in Western New York early 1900s. Ripening mid-October.

WAYNE New York 1951

Cook

Sept 1

19

Northwestern Greening x Red Spy. Large fruit with solid blushed skin. Good for fresh eating, canning, freezing or apple sauce. Upright, spreading tree. Late bloomer. Should be a good pollinator for late blooming varieties. Pollination Day =

WEALTHY Escelsior, Minnesota 1860.

Cook

Sept 15

Oct

14

Seedling of Cherry Crabapple by Peter Gideon. Excellent dessert and multi-use apple, picked a few weeks early for cooking. Beautiful fruit ripens to bright red across the surface. Crisp, juicy white flesh, with pink veins. Refreshing, sprightly, vinous flavour. Excels for home garden or orchard for many reasons. Profuse, long blooming period makes it a good pollinator. Heavy and early producer. Tends toward biennial bearing. Resistant to scab, fire blight and cedar apple rust. Found by Dick Eldridge from a tree in Westholme.


WEBSTERS PINK MEAT

Oct 3

15

A red-fleshed apple of unknown origin. Spur bearer.


WICKSON CRAB, Ettersberg, California , USA 1944.

Cider

Sept 30

Newtown Pippin crab x Esopus Spitzenburg crab. This diminutive fruit, more crab than apple, remains one of th finest and least known achievements of Alber Etter’s long apple breeding career. Wickson was developed as a cider variety and Albert claimed it could be used to make apple champagne. It has extraordinarily sweetness, up to 25% sugar with a highly flavoured juice and a pronounced acid tang. The apples are small ( 1 to 2 inches diameter). The small yellow and red apples are an impressive sight when hanging on the tree. The variety is so prolific that most are completely garlanded with fruit. Eaten out of hand, the Wickson is one of the most enticing confections to come off a tree. Wickson was named after E.J. Wickson, a distinguished California pomologist
WIJCIK Okanagan Valley, BC 1961

This tree, the first columnar apple variety known to man, was discovered in 1961in the Okanagan Valley, BC by a Polish orchard worker called Wijcik. It was a single branch mutation on the top of a 50 yr old McIntosh tree. The branch had no side shoots, only fruiting spurs along its entire length. Since then it has been crossed with many varieties to produce the Sentinel Series in Canada and the Spire Series in Britain. Pollination Day =


WINEKIST Winthrop, Maine, USA

Cider

Aug 20

A red-fleshed apple ready in mid August. The tree is bushy with leaves having a dark cast. The blossoms are red and the wood is pink. Fruit is medium sized and wine red in areas, with stripes of darker red. The stem is long and slender. The cavity is deep and steep. The basin is shallow and slightly buy obviously lobed. The flesh is very juice, coarse and almost a beet red, a real eye popper. The tart flavour is not one you would go out of your way for, but it is quite edible especially for a red flesh.

Scionwood source: John and Roberta Bunker, Palermo, Maine.

WINESAP (Old Fashioned Winesap) New Jersey, USA 1817

Cook, Cider

Oct 25

Apr

13T

Round, dark red fruit with crisp juicy yellow flesh with a spicy, vinous flavor and aroma. The fruit is medium sized, smaller than Stayman Winesap. Good for cooking and juice. Noted for its crisp, very juice, yellow flesh and its blend of sugar with high tartness. Gets its name from its spicy wine like flavour and aroma. Top quality, multi purpose apple. Flavour is too sharp for some, preferred for dessert by others. Makes fine cider. Excellent for sauce. Keeps until May. Heavy producer. Will not pollinate other apples. Adapted to a wide range of soils and climate. . Requires 800 hours of chilling. Blossoms are pink. Many strains exist.


WINTER RED FLESH

Oct 15

16

Sasha X Redflesh. Red fleshed fruit. Conical apple. Excellent for red applesauce and jelly. Abundant purple flowers, bronze-red leaves. Hardy to –50 degrees F.

Sasha x Red Flesh cross. Medium size conical fruit, solid red skin, solid red flesh. Purple blossoms and bronze red leaves. Ripens mid October.


WINTERSTEIN USA 1901

14

Gravenstein seedling with less tart flavour and later maturity. Attractive, pink-red fruit with crisp, subacid, flavourful flesh. Selected by Luther Burbank selection., Attractive pink and red blossoms.


WYNOOCHEE EARLY

19

17

12.8

Cook

Aug 31

8

This beautiful red apple ranks with Liberty for scab resistance. Thin skinned, red fruit. Great for fresh eating, skin almost disappears when cooked. Will keep until Christmas when refrigerated. Scab resistant. Ripens early Aug, 2 weeks before Gravenstein, and is unique for early apples for its full-bodied flavour. Delightful for fresh eating and tart enough for cooking. Good choice for coastal areas. Debbie’s favourite early apple. Discovered near Aberdeen, WA., Wynoochee Early is a unique, disease resistant, very early large creamy yellow variety with red stripes. Unusual among early varieties for its delicious full bodied flavor, Wynoochee early ripens in early August and can be

stored until Christmas.

YORK IMPERIAL (York, Johnson’s Fine Winter)York, Pennsylania,1830

Cook, cider, dry

Nov 5

16

Medium to large, rectangular, intermediate to flat fruit. Bright green or yellow skin with light red or pinkish red flush. Firm, crisp, tender, juicy, yellowish flesh. Aromatic, subacid flavour. Excellent for baking and making cider. One of the best old-time winter keeping apples. Hold until Christmas for best flavour. Ripens in late Oct. Hardy Zones 4-7. Favourite in the East. Downing described it as the Imperial of Keepers, hence it’s name. Found by a Mr. Johnson who watched school children digging out leaf covered apples in early spring. Spur bearer.
ZUCCALMAGLIO'S REINETTE, (Von Zuccalmaglio) Germany 1878.

19

19

13.8

Oct

Mar

12.1

Ananas Reinette X Purpurroter Agatapfel. Dessert apple that has been described as "Strong harmonious fruitness. Exciting and titillating with tones of wild strawberry, quince, pineapple, ripe pear and a fine floral touch." Rough sticky skin flushed brown- red with faint red stripes and some russeting. Dry, fine grained, yellow-white flesh. Bears early. Some disease resistance.
Pol.Date: 12.1, Harvest: Oct., Season: Nov. - Mar.

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