Fruit Tips

Pippin is about as cute a name for a sweet little apple as you can get. Or it conjures a 70”²s flashback of actors in harlequin tights dancing Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, belting out Broadway gold. “Leave …

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Born at the Geneva New York Ag Station, this apple has gone on to greatness. Just like its namesake John Macoun, a botanist who was the Lewis & Clark of Canada mapping the westward expansion into …

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of crunchiness. The Liberty apple is a cross between a Macoun and a Purdue apple. It has a natural waxy surface bloom to protect its skin. …

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Medium-sized, sweet, and a bit acidic, this New Yorker apple from Woodstock is also called the Esopus Spitzburg. …

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Introduced in 1968 by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY, the Jonagold has become a rising star in apple-dom. Crossed from the JONAthan and the GOLDen Delicious, this …

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A firm and crisp green apple. When you think of the traditional tart apple, Granny Smith is it. Refreshing and a wonderful compliment to cheese. …

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A crisp, sweet apple with a winning Midwestern pedigree.

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West Virginia's state fruit is a soft apple with yellow-gold skin and a mild and sweet taste. …

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Sweet and mild, somewhat thin-skinned, and striped. The Gala apple originated in New  Zealand from momma Golden Delicious and poppa Kidd's Orange Red. …

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Cameo apples made their first appearance as a little stray seedling in an orchard in the upper left corner of Washington state. Cameos are tart and aromatic with stripey skin. Alfred Hitchcock was the …

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