Medium-sized round-conic fruit is soft light green with an occasional faint orange blush and usually a small russet splash around the stem. Sweet enough to be eaten for dessert while also having enough acid to be a good early culinary apple.
In central Maine it ripens towards the end of August and into September. First mentioned in A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees by William Coxe in 1817. Coxe simply calls it Bough. It came to Maine before 1850 and was sold by Taber’s nursery in Vassalboro. Z4.
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