
Ontario apple
Last updated 10 Feb 2014.
Very good eating, juice and cooking apple. Medium-large fruit with green skin flushed and striped red. Flesh fine textured, very juicy, sprightly and aromatic.


Origins
- Species: Malus domestica
- Parentage: Wagener x Northern Spy
- Originates from: Paris, Ontario, Canada
- Introduced: 1820
- Developed by: Charles Arnold
- Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 1818
- UK National Fruit Collection accession: 1923-058
Using
- Uses: Cooking
- Cooking result: Puree
- Harvest period: Very-Late season
Growing
- Flowering period: Mid season
- Flowering group: 3
- Fertility: Self-sterile
- Ploidy: Triploid
- Pollinating others: Poor
- Period of origin: 1800 - 1849
Other qualities
- Awards: RHS Award of Merit
Relationships to other varieties
Parents and other ancestors of this variety:
- Northern Spy (parent)
- Wagener (parent)
References and further reading about this variety
- Apples of England (1948)
Author: Taylor
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Germany
- Nick Baile in BRUEHL,
Canada
- Ryan Monahan in Brantford, ON
- Sergei in PEMBROKE, ON
Where to buy fresh fruit
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British Columbiamap >
- Salt Spring Apple Company, Salt Spring Island
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