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                                 Useful Apple Information:

 Frost Pocket varieties    Apple facts    Cold hardy varieties    Hardy to  zone 4    Will fruit in zone 8    Keeping Apples    Cooking Apples 
                           Dessert Apples for eating out of hand    Varieties for early harvest     Cider Apples  Pie Apples            
 

Disease Resistant Varieties:
Arkansas Black
Black Limbertwig Freedom
Golden Russet
Grimes Golden
King David
Liberty
Liveland Raspberry
Mammoth Black Twig
Mollies Delicious
Mother
Myers Royal Limbertwig
Red Limbertwig
Roxbury Russet
Rusty Coat
Spartan
Sweet Sixteen
Yates
Yellow Transparent
York Imperial

Frost Pocket Varieties:
Albemarle Pippin
Calville Blanc da Hiver
Granny Smith
Northern Spy
Ralls Genet
Red Delicious 
Spigold
York

Apple Facts:

--Standard trees yield 10 bushels of apples.
--Semi-dwarf trees yield 4-5 bushels of apples a year.
--A bushel of apples yields 2-3 gallons of  cider.
--An 80x80 ft. orchard will accommodate (5) full-size trees, (16) semi-dwarf trees, or(42) full-dwarf trees.
--Apples are ripe when their seeds are dark brown or black

Cold Hardy Varieties:
Baldwin
Blue Pearmain
Carolina Red June
Cox's Orange Pippin
Duchess of Oldenburg
Early Harvest
Fameuse
Freedom
Golden Russet
Liberty
Liveland Raspberry
McIntosh
Northern Spy
Red Astrachan
Salome
Sheepnose
Spartan
Sweet Sixteen
Wolf River
Yellow Transparent

Hardy to Zone 4.
Heat Tolerant Varieties:
Arkansas Black
Ben Davis
Black Ben Davis
Buckingham
Grimes Golden
Horse Apple
Limbertwigs
Magnum Bonum
Mollies Delicious
Ralls Genet
Red June
Stayman Winesap
Winesap
York Imperial
Yates

Will Fruit in Zone 8:  
   

Pie Apples
Albemarle Pippin
Bramley's Seedling
Callville Blanc Dâ' Hiver
Cox's Orange Pippin
Granny Smith
Grimes Golden
Jonagold
Jonathan
Macoun
Northern Spy
York Imperial
Reasor Green
Spigold
Summer Rambo
Drying Apples
Grimes Golden
Maiden's Blush
Red Horse
heepnose
Summer Rambo
Winesap
Wolf River

Keeping Apples:
Albemarle Pippin
Arkansas Black
Ben Davis
Limbertwigs
Roxbury Russet
Virginia Beauty
Yates
York

Cooking  Apples:
Bramley's Seedling
Cox's Orange Pippin
Duchess of Oldenburg
Early Harvest
Fallawater
Golden Sweet
Horse Apple
Lodi
Pink Pearl
Red June
Summer Rambo
Wolf River
Yellow Transparent

Dessert Apples: For Eating Out of Hand
Albemarle Pippin
Baldwin
Cox's Orange Pippin
Early Harvest
JonagoldKing David
Mother Apple
Myers Royal Limbertwig
Northern Spy
Red Limbertwig
Rusty Coat
Spartan
Spigold
Spitzenburg 
Stayman Winesap
Sweet Sixteen
Virginia Beauty
Winesap

Varieties for Early Harvests:
Benham
Carolina Red June
Chenango Strawberry
Duchess of Oldenburg
Early Harvest
Early Red Bird
Henry clay
Horse Apple
Lodi
Liveland Raspberry
Lyman’s Large Summer
Ozark Pippin
Pink Pearl
Red Astrachan
Summer Rambo
Wolf River
Yellow Transparent

Cider Apples:
Albemarle Pippin
Arkansas Black
Baldwin
Black Limbertwig
Bramley's Seedling
Cortland
Fameuse
Golden Delicious
Golden Russet
Grimes Golden
Jonathan
King David
Macoun
McIntosh
Mother
Myers Royal Limbertwig
Northern Spy
Pound Sweet
Red Limbertwig
Red Royal Limbertwig
Smokehouse
Stayman Winesap
Winesap
York
 
 
 

 

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Last modified: July 15, 2005.