Smith Cider Apple Scionwood

This is a twig for grafting. Mid-Late Fall. Thomas Smith intro, Bucks County, PA, about 1800. Synonyms include Cider Apple, Choice Kentuck and Poplar Bluff. Quite popular long ago in the Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic and Southern states.

All-purpose fruit, desired for fresh eating, cooking and for its rich juice with consistently high sugar, an excellent base for cider blending. Flesh is tender, juicy, crisp and mildly subacid. Medium-sized roundish-oblate conic fruit is splashed and striped with red. Tree is vigorous, spreading, highly productive and annually bearing. First recorded in 1817 by Coxe in his book A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees and the Management of Orchards and Cider. Named by the owner of the original tree, which stood on a slope near a cider press. Smith would roll barrels down the hill and use the tree as a bumper to stop them from rolling any farther.

Keeps until late winter. Blooms late. Z5.

7899 Smith Cider

Item	Discounted From	Quantity
L 7899 A: 8" scionwood stick, 1 for $6.00
L 7899 B: scionwood by the foot (10' minimum), 1 ft for $5.50

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Additional Information

Scionwood

Scions are twigs, not trees. They have no roots and will not grow if you plant them. They are cuttings from dormant branch tips, intended for spring grafting.

We do our best to provide ¼" caliper stock. Because of factors beyond our control (such as weather!) stock may be ³⁄₁₆–³⁄₈".

We sell scionwood in two ways:

By the stick: One 8" stick will graft 3-4 trees.
By the foot: Minimum order of 10 feet per variety. For orchardists grafting large numbers of trees of a particular variety. In our own nursery work, we are usually able to graft 6-8 trees from one foot of scionwood.

You can graft right away or store scionwood for later use. It will keep quite well for several weeks stored in sealed ziplock bags in the refrigerator.

The deadline for ordering scionwood is February 21, 2025, for shipment around March 10. (Please note: we ship scionwood only in mid-March. If you would like to order rootstock to arrive in the same shipment, select mid-March shipping when adding the rootstock to your cart.)

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