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Apple Tree - Wolf River
Apple Tree - Wolf River The Wolf River Apple, Malus 'Wolf River', is best known for its large size, which can grow up to 5 diameter fruit. This is one enormous apple! The fruit is so large that some have said that just one apple can make a pie! These huge fruits have been prized for years for baking, applesauce, and apple butter. Weighing up to 1 pound each, the apple is pale yellow to green with carmine-red blushes and stripes. It is thick-skinned, tart, and aromatic. The Wolf River apple is scab and mildew resistant and very winter hardy. An old variety, it is long lived and ripens mid-September to early October in Zone 5. Wolf River is a midseason apple grown best in northern climates. 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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Apple Tree - McIntosh - Sale Price: $171.35 The McIntosh apple is a early and heavy producer. The flesh is white, soft and fine-textured. The flavor is distinctively sweet and aromatic. The McIntosh has a rather tough skin that has mixed red and green coloring. It's a favorite apple for eating out of hand but also is widely used in salads, sauces, pies. It is a mainstay in fresh cider and an all-time favorite for fresh eating and salads. It has large fruit and is used in juice, pies, and eating raw. The McIntosh is partly self-fruitful or, suggested pollinators are Red Delicious, Gala, or any other apple tree. |
| Apple Tree - Cox Orange Pippin - Sale Price: $171.35 Apple - Cox Orange Pippin, Malus domestica 'Cox Orange Pippin', is the classic English apple, often regarded as the finest of all dessert apples, and it remains unsurpassed for its richness and complexity of flavor. Cox Orange Pippin has a striking and attractive orange-red coloring and is definitely a superb looking and extremely tasty apple. Its medium-sized fruit has yellow skin blushed with orange-red and striped with crimson brown. The Cox Orange Pippin apple is grown for cider, cooking, and eating. The fine-textured, creamy white flesh ripens mid-fall to early winter and will not tolerate extreme cold, heat or low humidity. This upright, spreading tree is covered in pure white, cup-shaped flowers in mid and late spring, followed by first class, juicy dessert apples for harvesting in early to mid-October. |
| Apple Tree - Haralson - Sale Price: $78.50 The Haralson Apple, Malus 'Haralson', is a hardy substitute for Golden Delicious developed especially for cold northern areas. It has the Golden Delicious flavor, but the Haralson hardiness. It has medium to large golden to greenish fruit with a very smooth finish and reddish bronze blush. The Haralson has a round-conic shape. It has a red color and large, moderately conspicuous dots. Haralson apples are crisp and juicy, having a tart flavor. They are good for eating, cooking, and are an excellent choice for pies. The skin is medium-tough, and the stem is medium. Its flavor is sweeter and more bland than Golden Delicious. High quality and superior storage qualities since it can be stored into March. It often bears fruit the first year after planting. 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. |
| Apple Tree - Spitzenburg - Sale Price: $171.35 Firm, crisp, fine grained, with a rich, aromatic, renowned flavor. The Spitzenburg Apple (Esopus) was one of the favorites of Thomas Jefferson. It is thought of as a dessert apple for connoisseurs. Its size is medium to large, with round-conical, orangish fruit with tough skin. The flesh is tinged yellow, firm, aromatic, and complex in flavor; a perfect balance between sharp and sweet. Spitzenburg ripens in October and hangs on until November. This apple improves with storage and is best at Christmas time. The tree has a slender growth habit with long willowy limbs. A pollinator is required by mid-season blooming apples (not pollinated by Gravenstein), and it is hardy in Zones 4-8. Uses: as fresh eating or as a dessert, cooking (puree, applesauce, apple butter), and baking. |
| Apple Tree - Bramley's Seedling - Sale Price: $78.50 Firm, juicy, sharply acid flesh, and late to mature. Bramley's Seedling Apple is a traditional cooking apple of the British Isles. The fruit is large, flat, greenish yellow with broad broken brown and red stripes. Bramley's Seedling cooks to perfection with rich juice and no hard pieces. These qualities make it a good apple for making cider, and it is extremely high in Vitamin C content. The tree is large, a vigorous grower, and has a spreading habit. It blooms late, will survive during a frost period, and is a heavy, regular bearer. It requires a pollinator and ripens early October to early November depending on location. |
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