Back to Info Sheets	Fruit Trees: Apples   Apple trees are a challenge to grow.  They need a sheltered location to protect them from winter damage.  Training them espaliered against a wall will provide more shelter for tender varieties.  For a successful harvest the weather must be good during the flowering stage as well as dry and sunny during the ripening of the fruit. Apples require cross pollination by another variety of apple that blooms about the same time.  This means that two varieties have to be planted within a close range of each other (10-300 ft).  Crab apples can also be used to cross with eating apples.   LATIN NAME:   Malus       APPLE COX'S ORANGE       Late blooming and late fruiting.  Ripening about late October.   Dessert apple from England.  Roundish orange-red skin with many dots.  Firm and crisp.  Poplar but very tender plant.  Cross with Northern Spy or York Imperial. APPLE DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG    Hardy fruit tree.Fruit splashed with red over green-yellow background. Firm and crisp.  Very good cooking and dessert apple. Cross with Cortland, Lobo, Melba, Golden Delicious, Jonathan, Red Delicious.  Days from bloom to ripening: 125-130.  Good quality, medium acidity, good cooking variety. Moderate storage abilities. APPLE GRAVENSTEIN   Triploid: requires two other varieties to cross with it.  ie. cross with McIntosh and another variety.  Days from bloom to picking: 90-95.  Red striped fruit.  Good quality fruit with high acidity.  Makes good cooking apple and moderate storage abilities.     APPLE LIBERTY    A McIntosh type apple.  Good disease resistance.  Red striped fruit with juicy yellow flesh.  Ripens in October.  APPLE LODI   Early bright yellow variety.   Large and firmer than yellow transparent; (similar in flavour and quality).  Moderate shelf-life.  Ripens in September.  Semi-hardy.  Very good eating variety.  Excellent apple sauce variety. APPLE NOVAMAC A Nova Scotian apple, similar to the McIntosh in flavour and colour but fruit is smaller.  Scab-free variety and good espalier type.       APPLE VISTA BELLA  Ripens earliest.  Ripens in August..  Excellent eating variety.  Very good sauce and juice variety. APPLE YELLOW TRANSPARENT  Ripens in late august.  Semi-hardy.  Excellent eating variety.       APPLE COLOMNADE 'ULTRASPIRE'      Decorative pink-white flowers producing red fruit with yellow green blush in late-September. Good preservation until November.   There are many other varieties and new ones available each year.     Vol 97, no 40
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