Over the years we’ve offered many apple varieties that are Duchess seedlings, all just variations on a theme, including Nutting Bumpus and New Brunswicker. Borowinka seedlings are extremely rugged and were among the first apples to be successfully grown north of Bangor. Whole fields in Aroostook County are overgrown with these pippins and the fruit is all similar—good tart late-summer cooking and sauce apples with the characteristic Duchess stripes.

Often used as a rootstock for grafting, Borowinka seedlings are standard-sized, vigorous, disease resistant and cold hardy. Grow these trees for their own fruit, or topwork (graft) on varieties of your choice. Early to midseason blooms. Z3. Maine Grown. NEW! (Standard: 3–6' bare-root trees)

Items from our perennial plants warehouse ordered on or before March 7 will ship around March 31 through late April, starting with warmer areas and finishing in colder areas. Orders placed after March 7 will ship around late April through early-to-mid May, in the order in which they were received.