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Fruit trees
Mcintosh The McIntosh apple is a early and heavy producer. The flesh is white, soft and fine-textured. The flavor is distinctively tangy and aromatic. The McIntosh has a rather tough skin that has mixed red and green coloring. It's a favorite apple for eating out of hand but also is widely used in salads, sauces, pies. It is a mainstay in fresh cider and an all-time favorite for fresh eating and salads. It has a large fruit and is used in juice, pies, and eating raw.
Autumn Sweet The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. It is the nations leading pear variety. 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. They do require bees to help pollinate.
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. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
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 It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. 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 fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. 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.
Comice It has an outstanding flavor. Grow these and put them in your own gift boxes. It is sometimes referred to as the "connoisseur’s" pear.
Cortland Cortland apples are wonderful for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes because they don't turn brown quickly when cut. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy.
D Anjou It is a naturally sweet pear, light green in color with a yellow tinge when ripe. The best flavor is realized when stored 1-2 months. Requires cross pollination with Bartlett or any other pear with the same bloom date.
Damson A hardy, tree, largely untroubled by pests and diseases.
Early Italian This good commercial quality prune variety produces ten days to two weeks ahead of regular Italian.
Elberta This is a high quality eating and canning peach.
Fantasia The early harvest fruit is firm-ripe and tangy, later harvest is sweet, with rich flavor.
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