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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...

Discovered as a chance sapling in 1987 between Red Delicious and Golden Delicious, the Cameo apple’s rise to fame is a quick one. Though we cannot ...

In 1969, Hurricane Camille washed away vast swaths of Clyde and Frances 'Ginger' Harvey's orchard. In a valiant effort to recover as many seedlings...

The Braeburn apple is a popular apple cultivar that originated in New Zealand in the 1950s. It is known for its firm, crisp, and tangy fruit, which...

The Burgundy Pearl cherry is a dark red to almost black sweet cherry variety that is known for its intense flavor and firm texture. It is a relativ...

Its hardiness down to zone 4 makes this cherry popular in northern climates. It is start, smaller, bright red with a matte finish, and is disease r...

Researchers at the New York State Agricultural Experimental Station first discovered this apple in 1953 having crossed a Golden Delicious with a Jo...

The original seeding to yield the WineCrisp apple tree was first crossed in 1969 by L.F. Hough at Rutgers University; he used the unremarkably name...

The Bonnie's Best Apple is native to Wisconsin found on an orchard owned by Bonnie Keehn in Cooksville, WI. She first showed the qualities of this ...

The Paper Birch or White Birch, is a common tree across the entirety of North America. Its bark is strikingly white and is easy to spot in a forest...

Introduced by the NYSAES in 1923, the Macoun is a cross of McIntosh and Jersey Black. It is named after Canadian horticulturalist W.T. Macoun but w...

Originating in 1804 as a seedling on the farm of Herman Chapin in East Bloomfield, NY, the Northern Spy Apple almost did not survive. Attacked by r...

First bred in 1825 in Colnbrook, UK from possibly Ribston Pippin and the Blenheim Orange- the Cox Orange Pippins is the premier English Dessert App...

Also known as Beurré Bosc Pear originating from France in the early 1800s; Louis Bosc named this pear describing its buttery texture. It is truly b...

The Hudson’s Golden Gem apple is a unique and heirloom variety known for its distinct appearance, texture, and flavor. The apple is believed to hav...

Introduced in 1936 by R.C. Palmer from the Federal Agriculture Research Station (now the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre) in Summerland, British ...

The Autumn Crisp apple is a relatively new variety of apple that was developed by Cornell University's apple breeding program in Geneva, New York, ...

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 ...

Arguably one of the sweetest of all cherries- these medium sized trees produces incredibly sweet, crunchy fruit. Great for storing, canning, and ba...

Bred on the farm of Albert Etter, a Californian Pomologist, in Northern California in 1947. Etter is famous for his cultivation of red fleshed appl...

Scab resistant Asian pear. Slightly russeted and greenish-red in color. Creamy colored flesh. Similarly shaped to other Asian pears. Very sweet. Fi...

Also called the Trembling Aspen or White Poplar, the Quaking Aspen has one of the largest natural ranges of any tree in North America. Growing exce...

Originally discovered in Deftinge, Belgium during the Napoleonic Wars of 1810 by a Belgian pear 'enthusiast named Jean-Baptiste Van Mons. Van Mons ...

Vividly magenta with a slight variation in the leaf color, the Brandywine maple is a beautiful ornamental tree. Growing to a mere 20-25', this mapl...