Malus domestica 'Corail-Pinova cv'

Corail

Corail is the common name for the Pinova cultivar of apple introduced many years ago to the US from Germany.  It is a pretty bi-colored apple with high quality and great flavor.  The fruit size in medium and requires good thinning.  The bloom tends to be a shade of lavender.  It is a good keeper and ripens in early to mid-October in Michigan.  Corail can be prone to fire-blight since it can sometimes show open blooms late in the summer and can be infected at that time.  It has gone by many names including Pinata, and Sonata.

Malus domestica 'Hyslop'

Hyslop Edible Crab Apple

Hyslop Crab apple is an edible crab that can also be planted as an ornamental.  The tree is vigorous and very hardy with a bluish bloom.  It produces one inch fruit that are deep crimson red.  The fruit is juicy upon ripening, but tends to become dry and mealy if stored.  Ripens later in the season in October.  Good for jelly, pickling, and cider blending.

Malus domestica 'Kingston Black'

Kingston Black Bitter-Sharp Hard Cidre Apple

Kingston Black is one of the few English Cidre apples that can be used for singel-variety cidre.  It has a good sugar content with a bitter sharp flavor class.  It has a distinctive flavor all its own.  The fruit is medium sized, round with a dark crimson-purple color over a yellowish-orange background color.  The tree is vigorous, but is considered a more challenging variety to grow, requiring careful pruning.  It ripens from mid-Sept to mid-Oct.

Alternate Name:  Kingston

Malus domestica 'Liberty'

Liberty Apple

Grandpa's Nature Friendly™ Liberty is very similar to appearance to McIntosh, but its flavor is more tart and its flesh is crisper. It has a flavor all its own. It is a good dependable choice for any backyard orchard because it is highly productive and resistant to all the major apple diseases.

Malus domestica 'McIntosh'

McIntosh- Red McIntosh Apple

Grandpa's Choice™ Red McIntosh is one of the all-time favorites for some people. Red McIntosh is an early season apple with very aromatic, flavorful, white, juicy flesh. It is somewhat firm, but only will keep for shorter periods during the fall and early winter. It has a steely-red skin that is distinctive looking to match its very distinctive flavor. It is only medium large in size, but sets abundant crops.

Malus domestica 'Northern Spy'

Northern Spy Apple

Northern Spy may be one of the world's ugliest fruits, but it sure makes great pies! Northern Spy is a large, round, somewhat flat apple with greenish-yellow fruit and some red blushing and striping. The fruit is fine grained, very firm and crisp, and somewhat yellow fleshed. The flavor is tart and subacid. It keeps for exceptional lengths and is a favorite for pie making since it keeps its texture so well after baking. It is very hardy, well adapted to cold climes, because of its late bloom. Picks late in the fall.

Malus domestica 'Triumph™'

Triumph™ Apple

Triumph™, which is a cross of ‘Honeycrisp’ and ‘Liberty’, is ready to harvest in late September similar to or a bit later than its parent 'Honeycrisp.' It is an attractive firm fruit that has a pleasantly tart, well-balanced flavor that can store for up to 6 months in normal storage. It shows excellent scab tolerance with occasional stem bowl russeting. It is a consistant annual bearer with medium vigor and a spreading habit.

Malus domestica 'Wickson'

Wickson Crabapple

Wickson Crab is a small bi-colored apple that is more crabapple than regular apple, being only a couple inchs in diameter.  It is known for its excellent cider attributes as it has a definite acid tang, but can have sugar content up to almost 25%.  It is highly flavored.  Very hardy.  Useful also for pickling, jam and other culinary uses.

Malus domestica 'Wolf River'

Wolf River Apple

Wolf River apples are enormous, often weighing 1 pound or more. It has a pale red color over pale yellow skin and soft, tender, slightly mealy, creamy white flesh. Excellent for baking whole and drying. Resistant to scab, mildew, fireblight and cedar apple rust. Trees are very hardy.