One of the only summer apples you can call crisp. Medium-sized round solid purpley-red fruit with indistinct darker red stripes and a green spot around the stem. Firm sweet crisp juicy apple ripens mid-late August in central Maine. Highly recommended. Excellent fresh eating and creamy thick coarse sweet applesauce. Keeps two weeks on the counter or two months in cold storage.

Part of the second wave of disease-resistant scab-immune releases from the PRI breeding program. Becoming rather popular in Maine, it turns up in smaller commercial orchards and here and there in farmers’ markets. Vigorous somewhat upright habit. Scab immune. Blooms midseason. Z4. Maine Grown. (Standard: 3-6' bare-root trees)