Disease Resistant Apples

This is an enormous apple. First discovered in 1875 along the wolf River in Wisconsin- this apple soon became a popular baking apple because you on...

Developed in 1955 at the NYSAES as an offspring of the Macoun and Purdue 54-12 (a Japanese flowering crabapple) to create an extremely disease res...

This University of Minnesota variety was introduced in 1977 and is a cross between the Northern Spy and MN 447 (Frostbite) Apples. Commercially vi...

First developed in the Purdue University Horticultural Farm in 1982, the Enterprise Apple is another in several modern apples prized for its disea...

Pixie Crunch, or Co-op 33, is a 1971 cultivar of the PRI Institute grown at Purdue University. Descended from the Golden Delicious and Red Rome app...

Introduced from the Purdue-Rutgers-U of I Apple Breeding Program in 1994, the GoldRush apple is an excellent late season apple. Originally known as...

First created at Rutgers Fruit Research Center in New Jersey in 1971 and is a cross between apple PCF2-134 and PRI 669-205. The Crimson Crisp was ...

Developed from the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in the 1950s; the Freedom Apple counts the McIntosh, Macoun, the ever prolific G...

Created in South Haven, MN by David McGregor, the Kinderkrisp is a new variety that was hybridized from the famous Honey Crisp Apple. Created to b...

This apple was one of several cold hardy varieties imported from Russia to help with Western Expansion. In the 1870s, as Americans moved into colde...

This apple was first bred by the University of Minnesota as early as 1913 and became available to the public in 1923. It is named after one if its ...

This American heirloom variety was discovered as a chance seedling in New Jersey and was first mentioned in literature in 1804. There is also an il...

An old American cider apple that is great for eating, dessert, and drying. The apple is medium to large. It has a sugary dense crisp flesh. Golden ...

First discovered in Roxbury- part of the Massachusetts Colony- in the mid 1630s; the Roxbury Russet is one of the oldest cultivars in the United St...

A relatively newer apple with the iconic red flesh, the Red King is a distant offspring of the Red Delicious. It retains the Red Delicious' shape ...

Great for organic growers! These varieties of apples are bred to resist disease better than heirloom or older varieties. The tree below are selecte...

Discovered by chance in an orchard in Washington County, Arkansas in 1893, the King David Apple is probably an offspring of Jonathan and Arkansas B...

First available in 2021, the Triumph apple is a recent University of Minnesota variety. A cross between the Honey Crisp and Liberty apples, the Tr...

The description in William Coxe's 1817 book A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees describes it best: "The apple is of very small size; the form ...

A.R. Whitney of Whitney Nursery first grew this crabapple from seed in 1865 and it is one of the only crabapples one can eat off the tree. It is pr...

A prolific bloomer, the Mont Blanc Crabapple's bud is a bright pink in color that opens to a snow white flower after many other blooms have opened....

The Prairie Magic Apple is a wonderfully cold hardy variety hailing from Jeffries Nurseries in Neepawa, Mantioba. Wilfrid Drysdale crossed a Goodl...

Another excellent Cornel University apple, 'Cordera' (NY56) is named for Robert Lamb, a Cornell University apple breeder. Cordera means lamb in Spa...

Another Mid-Late season bloomer that has white blooms, the Snowdrift Crabapple is more columnar than other crabapple trees when young which then sp...