Fruit Trees

The Stella Cherry comes from the John Innes Institute in Norwich England. In 1964, scientists a the Brookhaven National Laboratory irradiated the g...

Please see our main Honeycrisp page for a general description. The difference between the Cameron Select and the standard Honeycrisp is a matter of...

Summercrisp pear has a firm, crisp, texture with a sweet mild flavor that is slightly tart. They are recommended for fresh eating only. The cold ha...

Introduced 1870 in the orchard of a Mr. Brathwaite, the fruit, a variety of Winesap, round and of medium size. The flesh is yellow, fine grained, c...

The Black Pearl sweet cherry is a relatively new variety of cherry that was developed in Canada in the early 2000s. It is a cross between two other...

A European sour cherry originating in Hungary in the 1970s. Developed through Communist Hungary's government for export, the Balaton emerged as the...

The ‘Kristin’ cherry is like the hidden gem of the cherry world, with a story that began in 1938 from a careful cross between ‘Emperor Francis’ and...

First discovered in Clay County, West Virginia in the late 1890s as a chance seedling of a Grimes Golden or Golden Reinette. When it became commerc...

This regal apple is named for Grand Duchess Catherine of Oldenburg, sister to Czar Alexander I and originates from the late 17th century in Eastern...

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...

Developed at the University of Minnesota Agriculture Research Center by crossing a Golden Delicious with a cold-hardy Haralson. The result was a Go...

Hosui pears are consistent taste-test winners. The golden russeted skin has juicy, sweet, very flavorful flesh. Hosui is a best seller in Japan. Th...

An adorable sweet cherry first developed in 1975 at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in British Columbia, CA and released to the public a few ...

The University of Minnesota introduced this cold hardy apple in 2006 and is a crosse between the Sharon and Connell Red apples. It is consistently ...

Bright orange without much blush, this apricot is an eye pleaser. Large with near identical lobes with a waxy skin and little fuzz. They ripen slig...

First found in a New Mexico Valley in the 1940s, the Champagne has quite the volatile history. The Dixon family began growing this apple as soon 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...

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...

This apricot ripens slightly later than other apricot species hardy to zone 5. The fruit is light orange, oval shaped, and generally uniform in app...

This peach is a firm, yellow to red highly colored variety for late season. The Cresthaven’s fruit is yellow-fleshed, freestone, and shows consider...

Japanese cultivar, medium-large, rusty maroon colored, vigorous grower, disease resistant, profuse bloomer in early spring, susceptible to early fr...

  This bright green, glossy skinned pear is one of the most easily recognizable pears. Similar shape to a Bartlett but with a shorter neck. Despite...

First introduced to England from Circassia, Russia in the late 1700s by a man named Hugh Ronalds. Originally called Ronald’s Large Black Heart, the...