Types of Apple Trees
The grocery store where I work, known for having tons of apple varieties, sells this variety as macintosh. They're crunchier and blander than a true mac, though. They didn't have that true "mac" taste to them either.
Adams's Pearmain is a an old-fashioned late dessert apple, one of the most popular varieties in Victorian England, probably originating from Norfolk. It has an attractive 'pearmain' shape. This is a fairly dry apple - which is perhaps not regarded as a desirable attribute today.
Medium-sized, yellow-green underecolor with striped red wash. Good dessert quality. The apple name, Adanac, is Canada spelled backwards.
Airlie Red Flesh is one of the best-flavored and latest-ripening red-fleshed apples, also known as Hidden Rose®. The variety was first discovered in the 1960s growing as a seedling tree on land owned by Lucky and Audrey Newell near Airlie in Oregon (between Corvallis and Independence).
One of the best early-season apples, Akane is a marriage between the American Jonathan apple and the English Worcester Pearmain. In appearance it most closely resembles the Worcester Pearmain. For an early apple variety it has an unusually good balanced flavor, reflecting the influence of the high quality Jonathan.
The original tree was and still is standing in the garden there. it is beleived that it was a spontaneous breed. the apple was a winter fruit and stayed fresh till march if kept in a cool space. juice was used to make wine; too.
Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details here and contribute to our international register of fruit trees. The following Albany Beauty trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree.
ALBEMARLE PIPPIN, the most famous of Virginia apples, originated in 1700 near the village of Newtown on Long Island, New York. Col. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill brought scions of the variety back to Albemarle County as he returned from service under General Washington at the battle of Brandywine in 1777.