From the well-known Purdue-Rutgers-Illinois apple-breeding program, a highly recommended fresh-eating apple. Medium-large roundish red-orange fruit is crisp, firm, juicy with a rich spicy flavor. Stores for 6 months or more. Flavor improves in storage, with best eating about a month into winter.

Longtime readers of the Fedco Trees catalog know we can be a bit skeptical when it comes to modern varieties. We were reluctant to pay much attention to Enterprise for years, but now have added it to our list of varieties worth planting. Two of our favorite Maine growers, Steve Meyerhans of Fairfield and Joe Vachon of Stetson, are among those who have raved about this fruit.

Annual bearing, scab immune, resistant to powdery mildew, cider-apple rust and fireblight. Blooms late-season. Z4. Maine Grown. BACK! (Standard: 3–6' bare-root trees; dwarf: 2½–5' bare-root trees)