Mid-late summer.
Unknown parentage. Southwest England, long ago. In Maine it’s also known as Bell’s Early and Sopsavine. “A very ancient English culinary and cider apple,” according to Ephriam Goodale’s Maine nursery description 200 years ago. Brought to Maine about 1800 and considered the leading summer apple for nearly a century thereafter.
Flesh is juicy, soft, sweet, fine-grained, aromatic and heavily red stained. A fine summer dessert and cider apple. Carol Boynton of Jackson, NH, introduced it to us and said the medium-sized round deep purple fruit makes the best sauce. No need to remove the skins and no need for a ladder: just collect the ripe ones as they drop and make another batch of sauce, which is naturally pink.
Tree is medium-large, vigorous, notably upright in form, precocious, very productive and usually annual bearing. Blooms midseason. Z4.
(Standard: 3–6' bare-root trees)
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