Heirloom 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...

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...

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...

Created in 1940 by Albert Etter after combing through seedlings from a 'Surprise' apple. He eventually settled on seedling #39- its properties were...

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...

One of the earliest cold hardy varieties in Minnesota (though not from the University!). In the 1860s, Peter Gideon was finally able to cross his l...

The Golden Russet apple is a classic American heirloom variety that dates back to the 1700s. It is a medium-sized apple with a yellow-golden skin c...

N.W. Greening is a Wisconsin Native! Jasen Hatch of Iola, WI crossed a Golden Russet with an Alexander in 1849- the seedlings of the new apple were...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Discovered at 1913 Kickapoo Orchard and grafted from a single specimen. The crabapples are small, about olive sized, are dark purple in color, and ...

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...

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...

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

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...

Grafted from trees at 1913 Kickapoo's Orchard~ this apple is cold hardy and makes a great pie. The apple is quite large, nearly 4" across and is ve...

The Red Gravenstein is a sport of the much older Gravenstein Apple. Originally planted in the 1670s, the Gravenstein apple was used as a cooking an...

An old English (Essex) variety bred in 1888 by crossing a Peasgood's Nonsuch (probably the coolest apple name ever) with a Dumelow's Seedling and c...

The Harrison Cider Apple was lost to history until 1976 when a fruit collector rediscovered the tree growing next to a defunct cider mill near Oran...

While records of this apple date back to the early 1700s, the Fameuse apple truly gained in popularity in the 1850s in Quebec, Canada due to its ex...

Named for Rodney Stoke in Somerset, England- this is an old cider apple. It finally became popular in the 1920s though the tree was almost certainl...

Discovered in the mid 1850s on the farm of Mr. Dent at Yarkhill, Herefordshire, UK; this is another English Cider Apple. It is on the smaller side,...