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Fruit trees
Dolgo This hardy tree is upright with an open habit and is very ornamental. The glossy, dark green foliage turns yellow in the fall. The Crabapple Dolgo produces pink buds that open to fragrant, white flowers. The Dolgo is a superb apple pollinator for other apple trees. Dolgo Crabapples are large and are bright red. They are excellent for jellies.
Autumn Sweet This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian.
Bartlett 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. It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. 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. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. 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. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy.
Braeburn The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. It is a late season apple with a long storage life.
Chestnut An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. It is a very productive annual bearer, and is loaded with white blooms in the bloom stage. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for "rabbit", is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. They are great for snacking, and so big, one cherry is a mouthful! The skin is bright in appearance and it is split resistant due to flexible skin.
Comice It’s also blight-resistant. The Comice Pear produces a large pear with a very juicy, melting flesh.
Cortland The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy. The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple.
D Anjou The flesh is white with abundant juice and a sweet brisk flavor. It is a naturally sweet pear, light green in color with a yellow tinge when ripe. Requires cross pollination with Bartlett or any other pear with the same bloom date.
Damson The dark purple skin covers the golden yellow flesh.
Early Italian This good commercial quality prune variety produces ten days to two weeks ahead of regular Italian.
Elberta And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9.
Fantasia Moderate fertility and good drainage is a must.
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