Heirloom Apples

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

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...

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...

This American heirloom variety has been around since at least the 1840s. George Howland of New Bedford, MA exhibited this apple for the Massachuset...

Dutch settlers discovered this apple along the Hudson River near a settlement called Esopus- hence its name- which stands about halfway between New...

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...

First saved from Albert Etter's orchard in Ettersberg, CA, the Rubaiyat was almost decimated by cows and lost to history. The apple is bright red i...

First grown from a seedling in Gloucester, England in an orchard owned by William Ashmead. The ‘Kernel’ in the name also suggests it was a chance f...

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 hails from Oxford County, Maine and was discovered by Nathanial Haskell in 1790. This very tree, still standing in 1907, is well known t...

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...

This American heirloom variety can trace its lineage back to Rhode Island in the mid 1650s and was discovered on the farm of a Mr. Green near Middl...

Description Coming Soon. USDA Zone: 4-8 Mature Heights:  EMLA.7 ~15-17' tall; Semi-Dwarf M.111 ~18-21' tall; Semi-Dwarf Sun: Full Sun Bloom Group: ...

One of the longest lived apple trees with the original specimen still standing in an orchard in Nottinghamshire, UK, having been planted as a seedl...

A New England heirloom whose early lineage remains a mystery. The earliest reports of its existence date back to before 1700. The medium to large a...

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...

The Yellow Newton is a chance seedling from an older English variety brought to the US in 1755 by Dr. Thomas Walker. The apple grew well in Albemar...

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...

This seedling tree was discovered in the high Sierra Mountains in California and thought to be a left over from the 1840s Gold Rush. Therefore, the...

Discovered in the Sinop Peninsula- modern day Turkey- in the 1700s. The apple is strikingly long and oblong in shape; similar to an early Strawberr...

Small, juicy with some tannic acid giving it a dry-ish consistency, coarse grained, white fleshed, sweet but not too sweet, little to no tang, chew...

A descendent of the Jonathan Apple- this bright red apple retains much of the Jonathan's texture and flavor while also being more disease resistant...

American Seedling of the Vandevere Apple discovered in Lampeter Township, PA. Discovered near the owner of the farm~ a Mr. William Gibbons'~ smokeh...