Fruit Trees

Released in 1978 from the University of Minnesota, this apple has been popular in the upper Midwest due to its flavor, ripening time, and cold hard...

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

One of the oldest apples still in existence, the picturesque Calville has been around in France and Germany since the mid 1600s. The Premier French...

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, ...

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

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

Long known to be one of the parents of the prodigious Golden Delicious~ the Grimes Golden apple was originally discovered in an orchard in West Vir...

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 ...

Literally descriptive name, this apple both ripens early and is a golden yellow color. It is nearly perfectly round with a yellow hue that softens ...

A late October apple of superb fresh eating quality. The large golden-yellow apples have a snow-white, juicy, very sweet flesh. While best known fo...

The golf ball sized, round fruit is similar to other Asian pears. It is firm and crunchy with more russeting than the Hosui. It is very sweet and g...

William Butters found this chance apple tree near Wood Hill (close to modern day Wilmington, MA). Research suggests Butters discovered this apple a...

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...

The Royal Empire Apple (REA) is a sport of the popular Empire Apple. First discovered in 1992, this sport has grown to dominate the Empire market. ...

The Dabinett Apple dates back to a chance discovery by William Dabinett (for whom it is named) in the early 1800s at his orchard in Somerset, Engla...

A tart bush cherry growing to less than 5' tall. Plant produces cherries along the length of the branch that ripen in late August to early Septembe...

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...

Want to start a backyard orchard but don't know where to start. We have our recommendations for an excellent variety of fruit trees that pollinate ...

A tart bush cherry growing to less than 4' tall. Plant produces cherries along the length of the branch that ripen in late September- this is the l...

Want something colorful for your back yard orchard? These red-fleshed apples would help set your orchard apart or add a delightfully versatile coll...

Developed by Freeman Howlett at the Ohio AES in 1944, the Melrose apple is the official state apple of Ohio. Its late harvest time makes this a goo...

This apple ripens around the time of the Minnesota State Fair, hence the name, and is the parent of another earl variety also of UofM: Zestar. Deve...

Bred in 1963 at the Rutgers University Horticultural Research Farm by crossing an offspring of Cortland and Cox Orange Pippin with a Golden Delicio...