Early season eating and cooking apple, ripens in August. Round-conic shape reminiscent of Red Delicious, solid red overspread with stripes of darker red. Glistening crystalline firm white flesh with a pink hue just below the skin. Sweet flavor has hints of plum and pear. Does not keep.
For years, great confusion surrounded this apple that was introduced in Maine by John Thompson, one of Mercer’s earliest settlers. Some claimed that the fruit was identical to the Massachusetts apple Williams. Recent DNA profiling proves that they were correct. We still call it by its local name. At least two Thompson trees that we know of are still standing in Mercer.
Rare. Blooms midseason. Z4.
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