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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

Apple varieties

  • Medium-small red fruit. Very firm and flavorful. Stays juicy in storage until April.
  • A McIntosh-style apple. Snow white coarse flesh. Aromatic and juicy with good acidity.
  • Very deep, dark maroon to purple color. Highly aromatic. Crisp and juicy, richly flavorful with acid component. Outstanding flavor retention when cooked. Keeps about 1 month.
  • Vilberie Apple
    Vilberie is a traditional French hard-cider variety, producing a very tannic but sweet bittersweet juice.
  • Bright yellow fruit with pink blush. Crisp juicy flesh with flavors similar to Newtown Pippin. Should be stored to reach peak flavor.
  • A large, oblate, yellowish-green apple with hard, firm flesh. Valued as a late keeper. Flesh creamy yellow or greenish, very firm, hard, breaking, coarse, moderately juicy, mild, subacid becoming somewhat sweet.
  • A very-early season dessert apple.