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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

First developed at Purdue University Breeding Program in the 1970s and released to the public in 1988, the PRI2845-1 apple is another excellent exa...

Developed in Canada in 2009 at the Agricultural Food Station in Harrow, ONT. No a common sight in central Canada and Nova Scotia- this is a recent ...

Another apple created by the Purdue, Rutgers, and University of Illinois Agricultural Experimental Station in the 1980s, the Redfree apple was des...

This is the 'Stayman' Winesap variety. The apple is small-medium in size and while initially light green in color, it blushes to a dark red when ri...

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...

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...

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....

Created at the Experimental Botany in Prague in 2008, this apple is a cross between the prolific Golden Delicious and the modern Topaz apples. It i...

First bred in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1961 at the Agricultural Research Service with the USDA and Univ. of Tennessee. Named by Jerry Hardigree, the...

The Empire is a hybrid of the McIntosh and Red Delicious apple varieties, and was developed by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station i...

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

Developed in the 1970s at the Morioka Research Station in Japan, the Sansa Apple is a standard cross between the Akane and Gala apples. This early...