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Fruit trees
Arkansas Black They keep for many months. They have an excellent storage life. The Arkansas Black Spur Apple is a large, late season apple fruit tree. The distinctive dark red skin encases a high quality fruit even where summer nights are warm. Arkansas Black blooms in mid-season and is a great pollinator for early blooming apple varieties, varieties blooming in the middle of the season, and varieties blooming late in the season. Use this apple for dessert and cooking. It is a very late maturing variety grown primarily in the Southeast.
Autumn Sweet This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life. The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit. Bartlett Pears do not ripen properly on the tree, so growers pick the fruit when it is mature but green.
Bing The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy.
Braeburn The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life. Its eating qualities make it adaptable for cooking as well as fresh use.
Chestnut The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It usually has a partially russeted skin and hangs well on the tree. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for "rabbit", is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh.
Comice The Comice Pear produces a large pear with a very juicy, melting flesh. It has an outstanding flavor.
Cortland The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh.
D Anjou Requires cross pollination with Bartlett or any other pear with the same bloom date. The D'Anjou does not change color as it ripens.
Damson They make good windbreaks and hedges, though they are not likely to fruit well if they are very exposed.
Early Italian It is used as fresh, dried or canned prunes.
Elberta This is a high quality eating and canning peach.
Fantasia Moderate fertility and good drainage is a must.
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