Varieties

And their uses for varieties sold at Cornell Orchards, Ithaca, N.Y.

Early-season

Parentage & Flavor & Fresh Salad Pie Sauce Baking Variety Origin Texture Use Use Use Use Use Chance Mildly tart, Paulared seedling, Good Fair Excellent Excellent Good creamy, firm Michigan, 1960 Crisp, juicy, X , sweet and slow- Sansa Excellent Good Fair Good Good Japan, 1969 browning, aromatic X Sweet, firm, Ginger Chance subacid, flesh Excellent Good Good Fair Good Gold Seedling from slow to brown. Virginia, 1989

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Mid-season apples

Parentage & Fresh Salad Pie Sauce Baking Variety Flavor & Texture Origin Use Use Use Use Use Kidd's Orange Sweet, subacid, Red X G. Gala aromatic, crisp Excellent Fair Good Good Fair Delicious, N.Z., and granular 1965 X Firm, crisp, sweet, McIntosh, JonaMac tart. Mac type but Excellent Good Fair Fair Good Cornell/Geneva superior New York 1972 Chance seedling Tart, redolent, McIntosh Good Good Fair Fair Poor Ontario, 1811 semi-firm McIntosh X Ben Sweet, sprightly, Davis, Geneva, Excellent Excellent Fair Good Fair firm but velvety NY 1915 Delicious X Tart, full-bodied, McIntosh Geneva, Excellent Good Good Good Fair very crisp, firm NY 1966 Macoun X PRI Sweetly subacid, 54-12, Geneva, Excellent Poor Good Good Fair crisp fine-textured NY 1978 Red Chance seedling, Sweet, bland, firm Fair Good Fair Fair Poor Delicious Iowa, 1972 granular McIntosh X Subtly aromatic, Macoun Excellent Good Poor Fair Fair tart, juicy, crisp Geneva, NY 1923

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Late-season apples

Parentage & Flavor & Fresh Salad Pie Sauce Baking Variety Origin Texture Use Use Use Use Use Wagner X Tangy, tart, very Jonathon, firm improves Good Good Good Good Good Idaho, 1942 with storage G. Delicious X Sweetly Jonathon aromatic, Excellent Fair Good Excellent Good Geneva, NY subacid, juicy, 1968 crisp Chance Sweet, subacid, Golden seedling West mild semi-firm, Excellent Good Good Good Good Delicious Virginia, 1890's juicy Chance Tangy, robust, Northern seedling, New juicy tender but Excellent Good Excellent Good Excellent Spy York, circa 1850 firm Chance Mildly aromatic, Rome seedling, Ohio subacid semi- Fair Poor Goood Good Good Beauty 1848 firm, granular X G. Spicy, subacid, Crispin Delicious Japan, crisp best when Excellent Good Good Good Good () 1948 blushed

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New (or Rediscovered) Varieties

Special Characteristics & Variety Parentage & Origin Qualities Chance seedling from Crisp, mild-sweet. Large. Ripens in Wenatchee, WA early late October. 1980's (formerly Carousel) Scab resistant, very late-season, R. Delicious X long storage potential, fruit very Japan, 1966 aromatic, high quality. Excellent flavor! N. Spy quality for Fortune Schoharie Spy X Empire culinary uses. Multi-disease resistance. Very late G. Delicious X Co-op 17 season. Excellent fruit quality, G. GoldRush Purdue/Rutgers/Illinois, Del. type, very long storage 1992 potential. Ripens in late Mac season. Macoun X . 1991. Excellent, balanced flavor. Unique, U of Minnesota attractive red. Very hardy. Bitter pit. PRI855-102 X NJ31, Mid season Jonathan type, disease Jonafree Indiana, 1979 resistant; tart, fresh use. Minnesota #47 X Northern Some disease resistance. Very Keepsake Spy Minnesota Exp. Sta., winter hardy, homely, but excellent 1979 taste and long storage potential. Scab and rust resistant. Mid-season, R. Delicious X PRI610-2 good quality. Resembles Red Priscilla Purdue/Rutgers/Illinois, Delicious in appearance, pineapple 1972 flavor. Early season, disease resistant; fair Raritan X PRI1018-101, N.J. Redfree quality, short storage, good flavor for 1981 an early apple. PRI 1018-101X NJ50 Multi-disease resistance, Early- William's Pride Purdue/Rutgers/Illinois, season, fair quality R. Del. type, very 1988 large fruit, short storage potential.