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Malus spp. Late fall, golden skin, yellowish flesh. European heirloom. Crisp fine-grained flesh with bold citrusy pineapple flavor. Good for dessert, cooking and pressing. Stores well. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, red-blushed skin, cream flesh. European heirloom. Popular for its unusual shape and prized for its flavor and storage ability. Blooms midseason. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, red skin, yellowish flesh. Large crisp juicy fruit. Excellent for fresh eating, cooking, and hard cider. Keeps till spring. Biennial bearer. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, russeted green skin, yellowish flesh. Famous European cooking apple. Big blocky fruit patched with green and russet. Cooks and bakes beautifully. Keeps well. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, deep purple skin, greenish white flesh. Uniquely dark fruit with well-balanced flavor. Excellent pies and cider. Maine heirloom. Best eating late Dec. to March. Great keeper. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall, deep red skin, yellowish flesh. A popular historic variety from the South. Great for fresh eating, cider and cooking. Reaches peak flavor in storage. Natural resistance to many pests and diseases. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, russeted purplish red skin. Medium to very large apple has a good balance of sweet and tart with hints of pear. All-purpose. Keeps until midwinter. Z4.
Malus domestica Late summer, red-striped skin. Borowinka seedlings are standard-sized, vigorous, disease resistant and cold hardy. Grow these trees for their own fruit, or as rootstock for grafting. Early to midseason blooms. Z3.
Malus spp. Late summer-early fall, purplish red skin, red-stained white flesh. Summer-Fall. Very hardy high-quality cooking apple. Large and glossy purplish-red roundish fruit. Firm juicy flesh. Good for fresh cider. Stores 2 months. Z3.
Malus spp. Winter, pale green-yellow skin, white flesh. Large fruit with fine-grained juicy flesh. Famous dessert and cooking apple. All-purpose. Keeps till midwinter. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall, orange-red skin. Juicy, distinctly tart, full-flavored fresh eating apple. Very popular at our Common Ground Country Fair taste tests! Keeps about a month. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, pinky-red washed skin, pale yellow flesh. All-purpose. Relatively tart, great for pies, sauce and pizza! Very nice fresh too. Good keeper. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, russeted yellow-green skin, greenish white flesh. Best fresh eating after storage when fruit develops its extraordinary spicy cinnamon-nutmeg flavor. Very rugged tree. Z4.
Malus spp. Late summer, red-striped skin, yellowish flesh. From Russia, well before 1800. Known in New England as one of the very best pie apples! Extremely hardy. Scab resistant. Z3.
Malus spp. Late fall, russeted yellow skin. High-quality flavorful dessert apple. Rugged, reliable and hardy, it has produced for us here in central Maine for nearly 30 years. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, bright red skin, yellowish flesh. Medium-large, slightly tart, crisp and juicy. Thomas Jefferson’s favorite. Good acid source for cider. All-purpose. Good keeper. Z4.
Malus spp. Early fall, ruby red skin, white flesh. Also called Snow. Ruby-red fruit with tender white flesh. Excellent fresh eating, sauce and fresh cider. Keeps until late December. Z3.
Malus spp. Early fall, red-striped skin. Very high-quality and highly disease-resistant all-purpose apple. Juicy, firm, spicy flesh. Ripens early October, keeps until New Year. Productive and annually bearing. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, purple-striped red skin, apricot flesh. The most distinctive, complex, unusually flavored apple you'll ever try! Hardy, productive, reliable. A staff favorite. Z3.
Malus spp. Winter, russeted yellow skin. Medium-sized russet apple. The champagne of cider apples, and excellent for eating. Keeps well into spring. Scab-resistant. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, red skin, white flesh. A nearly perfect all-purpose apple for northernmost areas. Bright red fruit with white firm crisp juicy flesh. Very versatile. Keeps until March. Z3.
Malus spp. Fall, red-blushed and striped skin. Crisp flesh with balanced sweet-tart flavor. Good fresh eating and great dried apples. Stores into the winter. Disease resistant. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, red skin, white flesh. A popular all-purpose commercial apple in New England. Delicious fresh eating, cooks well in pies and sauce and keeps until late spring. Z4.
Malus spp. Late summer, deep red skin. These culinary crabapples are a tasty snack fresh off the tree, better after storage. Especially good for brandying. Keeps well. Z2/3.
Malus spp. Fall-winter, dark maroon skin, yellow flesh. Medium-sized intensely flavored apple is fine, juicy and tender. Keeps till January. Blooms early-midseason. Z4.
Malus spp. Late summer-fall, bluish red skin, yellowish flesh. Medium size, crisp white flesh. All-purpose. Keeps till late fall. Scab-immune. Annual bearer, begins at early age. Z4.
Malus spp. Summer, light green skin, white flesh. Bred from Yellow Transparent. Attractive, smooth skinned light green apple that appears to glow on the tree when ripe in mid summer. Very tart fresh eating. Great for sauce, summer pies. Z3.
Malus spp. Multi-colored skin. Be the proud keeper of a sister tree to one of many rare varieties planted at the Maine Heritage Orchard. $30 from the sale supports the project.
Malus spp. Fall, red skin. The most important apple in the Northeast. Delicious and aromatic. All-purpose. Annual bearer. Very susceptible to scab. Z4.
Malus spp. Late fall-winter, orange-russeted greenish yellow skin. Intensely flavorful dessert variety. Tastes like licorice! Keeps till the New Year. Z4.
Malus spp. Winter, red-striped skin. Famous heirloom apple. Very large, juicy, tender. Makes a great single-variety pie! All-purpose. Good keeper. Scab-resistant. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall, orange-blushed gold skin, white flesh. Modern apple bred for disease resistance, shelf life and flavor. Great fresh eating. Flesh stays white when sliced. Easy-to-grow annual producer. Z4.
Malus spp. Fall, russeted pink skin. An offspring of Frostbite and Chestnut apples. This russeted dessert apple is small, but packs a lot flavor. We eat them raw or baked whole rolled in cinnamon and sugar. Z4.
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Apples
Choosing the Right Apple
Not sure where to start? Check out our Apple Chart!
Choosing a variety: Not every variety may be right for you.
All-purpose apples are just that—they’re good for
a bunch of jobs. If you're planting just one tree, perhaps start there.
However, if you’re a history buff, consider the historical varieties
and maybe plant one that originated nearby. If you don’t eat many
apples but love pies, go for the pie apples. If you’re a dessert
connoisseur, skip all the others and go for the highly flavored dessert
varieties. Some are strictly for cider. Some are great to put out at the
camp for summer use. Some are perfect for those who want fall fruit but
don’t have a root cellar. Others keep all winter and into the
following summer.
Summer apples ripen in summer, are generally crisp
only for a short period, do not store well, and are often best for
cooking.
Fall apples store longer and are useful for a wide
variety of purposes.
Winter apples ripen mid to late fall, store well, and
reach their best flavor after weeks, or even months, of storage.
Dessert apples are delicious eaten raw.
Crabapples are less than 2" in diameter. Some
crabs bear edible or culinary or cider-making fruit. Some have
persistent wildlife fruit that hangs on the tree for weeks or even
months. Others have hardly any fruit at all. Some are beautiful
ornamentals.
Cider apples are especially suited to making
fermented “hard” cider. Some cider apples are also good
dessert fruit, but most are not.
Subacid means tart!
Russet or russeting is a skin
texture (fairly common on apple varieties and on a few pears and
potatoes) which looks and feels somewhat like suede.
Bloom is a naturally occurring dust-like yeast film
on the skin of some varieties of apples, plums, grapes and blueberries.
Cider Apples
Each year we offer a different assortment of the best
European and American
cider varieties, including new wild apple introductions from local fruit
explorers and cidermakers. Many of these are NOT for fresh eating. They do
however possess qualities that make them very desirable for fermented cider
production.
Seedling Apples
These trees were grown from seeds, rather than grafted onto rootstock like the other apple varieties we offer. These standard-sized trees will grow to 20–30'.
Flowering and Culinary Crabapples
A crabapple is any apple with fruit smaller than 2" in
diameter. All
crabs bear edible fruit, some more favorable for culinary use than others.
Some fruits are persistent, hanging on the branch through winter and
providing forage for robins, jays and waxwings in the early spring. The
flowers, tree form and even the shape of the leaves can vary subtly or
profoundly. Most are magnificent in bloom and ornamental year round,
especially in winter when the leaves drop and the trees show off their
interesting forms.
Growing Apples
Soil: Adaptable, but prefers well-drained fertile
soil.
Sun: Full.
Pollination: Requires a second variety for
pollination.
Any apple or crabapple blooming within a quarter mile will probably
do.
