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Apple Tree - Northern Spy
Apple Tree - Northern Spy Northern Spy Apple (Red Spy, Nortern Red Spy) is large, round, and often flattened. The skin is greenish yellow with pinkish red stripes, a delicate bloom, and occasional russet patches. This apple is rather firm, aromatic and has a subacid flavor. The flesh is very tender, finely grained, crisp, juicy, and tart. It remains remakably fresh after a long storage period. The Northern Spy is an excellent all purpose apple, but is not good for drying or making apple cider. The tree is very large, upright, a vigorous grower, and productive. It blooms late in the season and takes about 12 years to bear fruit. Ripens in late October and tends to bear biennially. Requires a pollinator such as Golden Delicious.
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Apple Tree - Yellow Newton Pippin - Sale Price: $171.35 Apple - Yellow Newton Pippin, Malus domestica 'Yellow Newton Pippin', is more flavorful and holds its shape better than any other pie apple. Green with yellow highlights, this snappy, tart treat is an excellent eating apple. This all purpose apple is sweeter than Granny Smith, and it is unparalleled for cooking and baking. If you like apple pie, this is the apple for you! This vigorous tree is generally late blooming, and it needs full sun, well-drained soil, and moderate fertility. It is best to thin fruit to maximize quality and size. Yellow Newton stores well and is self fertile. For peak flavor and acid/sugar balance, wait until harvest when cheeks are yellowish-green. |
| Apple Tree - Jonagold - Sale Price: $78.50 Firm, cracking, juicy, slightly tart flesh with rich, full flavor. Jonagold Apple has a superb flavor - a connoisseurs' choice because it has excellent cooking properties. It is a cross of Jonathan and Golden Delicious. The Jonagold apple is yellow with red-orange blush. The tree is handsome, sturdy, vigorous and spreading; annually productive. The apples ripen from mid-September to late October, depending on the location. This apple needs 700-800 hours of chilling. It will store in the refrigerator for three months. Pollinated by Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith or Red Delicious, but not Golden Delicious. |
| Apple Tree - Mollies Delicious - Sale Price: $171.35 The Mollies Delicious apple is rated one of the best delicious type apples on the market. Mollies Delicious apples are good for fresh eating, pies, and sauces. This apple matures in mid-season and is very productive, vigorous tree. The fruit is sweet, flavorful and very aromatic and the firm flesh has a very memorable sweet-tart taste. This tree produces large fruit with yellow flesh and a red blushing skin. Mollies Delicious is an early blooming variety. It will pollinate all other early blooming varieties and those with mid-season bloom time. This apple is highly recommended for southern locations, even as far south as the Houston Texas area. Suggested pollinators are Fuji, Granny Smith and Beverly Hills. |
| Apple Tree - Ashmead's Kernel - Sale Price: $78.50 The Apple - Ashmead's Kernel, Malus domestica 'Ashmead's Kernel', has an appearances that can be deceiving. Ashmead's Kernel is lumpy, misshapen, and rather small, but has remained popular for well over 2 centuries, and with good reason: it has a distinctive flavor that you will rave about because it is quite different from most other varieties. This dessert apple is outstandingly rich and tart, flattish in shape, about the size of a Gala or Jonathan, and half-russetted over gold. The apple sweetens as it stores and stores successfully for up to twelve months. The fruit is generally picked in October for use between December and February. It makes a good apple juice or applesauce because of its sweet sharp flavor. It is a late season pollinator which means it is not self-fertile but it can pollinate other apple trees. |
| Apple Tree - Liberty - Sale Price: $78.50 The Liberty Apple, Malus 'Liberty', is a deep dark red over 90 percent of the surface. The red is striped rather than blushed. The shape of the fruit is oblate to oblate conic, and the size averages 2 3/4 to 3 inches, although it may be smaller on heavily cropping trees. There are numerous light colored small sunken dots on the surface of the fruit. The flesh is yellowish in color, and the apple is juicy, crisp, and fine. It is a new disease resistant apple, and the name 'Liberty' denotes the freedom from disease. (Since it is not resistant to insects, however, spraying or other means of insect control must still be used.) The flavor is subacid and good. 'Liberty' is considered to be primarily a dessert apple. It makes an excellent applesauce if the skin is left on. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil. |
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