FRUITS

APPLE (Malus pumila)

Akane - large red good eating, dries well, introduced 1970 Tohoku Ag Ex Station

Arlet - Swiss gourmet apple

Blushing Golden - excellent eating bright waxy yellow skin with red blush

Centennial Crab - very early & small, sweet, tender skin, good desert & jelly (MN 1957)

Chieftain - big reddish, good looking keeps well, takes hot & cold (Iowa Ag Ex Station)

Empire - McIntosh x Red Delicious,  good color, flavor, 2 wks after McIntosh (NY 1966)

Empress - similar to Empire, month earlier, colors welt, ships well, (NY# 651 intro 1988)

Gala - a summer dessert apple, doesn't color up but great eating, keeps well (NZ 1965)

Honey Crisp - Macoun x Honeygold,  crisp, good keeper (MN plant patent 7197)

Jonagold, red - excellent eating, not as beautiful as Empire but tastes better

Kandil Sinap - looks waxed, crisp. excellent favor Turkish (early 18005)

Liberty - Macoun x Purdue 54-12,  best eating of scab resistant apples (intro 1978)

Mantet - earliest dessert apple, juicy, pleasing flavor often ripe August 1 (Manitoba 1929)

Mcintosh - good cooking, eating, cider, thin tender skin, slightly tart (Ontario 1870)

Mcintosh, Rogers Red - tastes good, colors solid red

Mutsu (Crispin) - Golden Delicious x Indo,  excellent yellow eating apple, late season, at peak end of November stays good till spring one of best for this area (Japan intro 1948)

Northern Spy - excellent except drying & cider, slow to bear (intro NY about 1800)

Patricia - good to eat right off the tree, most have to age week to taste so good (1921)

Red Astrachan - early, sauce, pies, gets mealy (Russian to Britain from Sweden 1748)

Red Secor - keeper, hard when picked, flavor changes, best after April (MN apple)

Starr - cooking apple. improves to desert apple, long season (NJ 1865)

Virginia Gold - large luscious yellow, very popular recent eating apple

Yataka - Fuji type, but earlier, and will ripen in our area

Yellow Transparent - sweet, juicy, excellent applesauce, scab resistant (Russian 1870)

Wilson Juicy - large early apple, heavy bearer

Braeburn (NZ intro 1952), Fuji (Tohoku #7,1962), and Granny Smith (New South Wales 1868) fine apples, but our season is not long enough for them to mature properly

Apples by Categories

Scab and rust resistant apples - Liberty, Primo, Purdue #2 (no beauty, but big & tasty)

Insect-free apples - Red Field & Worm Free, big, sour even bugs don't like, good jelly

Best early eating - Mantet, attractive red apple, ripe early August, does not keep well

Best keeping apple - Red Secor, sour apple that develops good flavor after April

Most beautiful apple - Kandil Sinap. Turkish, red & yellow sheepnose, looks waxed

Juiciest Apple - Kimble, very large

Largest Apples - Wolf River (1875), Stark Jumbo, My Apple

Sourest apples - Zabergau Reinette: large russet (Germany 1885); Red Field, red flesh

APRICOT (Prunus armeniaca)

Afghanistan - sweet, too tender for commercial use, (intro from Iran 1957)

SOUR CHERRY (Prunus cerasus)

Montmorency - self-fruitful, tart, tangy, doesn't get mushy (French to US 1760)

SWEET CHERRY (Prunus avium)
(grow only netted trees because of birds, keep under 7')

Black Russian - on Giessen 172-9

Chinook - on Giessen 172-9

Lapins - self-fertile on Giessen 172-9

Hedelfinger - on Giessen 172-9

Royalton - self-fertile on Giessen 172-9

Summit - on Giessen 172-9

Starkrimmson - self-fertile, Giessen 172-9

Sue - on Giessen 172-9

Utah Giant -

KIWIS (Actinidia spp.)
one male will pollinate 6-8 females in 50 foot circle

A. arguta. Anasasnaja - sweet, fuzzless, one of the argutas not uniform fruit size

A. arguta, Meader - named after Prof. Elwyn Meader

A. arguta, Michigan State - good size 3 x 1/2 inches. same size as crab apple

Red Princess - brick red, orange flesh

MULBERRY (Morus spp.)

Illinois Everbearing - good flavor, to late August, 2" long

NECTARINE (Prunus persica var. nucipersica)

Summer Beauty - will fruit only after mild winter

Sweet Melody - dwarf nectarine, not too sweet

PAW PAW (Asimina triloba)

PawPaw - Central US. rich, moist soil. pest & disease free, (shipped to England 1736)

PEACH (Prunus persica)

Encore - very late peach, bacterial leaf spot resistant (Plant patent 4572)

Reliance - very hardy, especially good in suburbs away from lake, small pit (NH 1964)

Red Haven - excellent, standard against which other peaches measured (MI 1940)

Sensation Dwarf Peach - hardy zone 5-8, not too flavorsome (Plant Patent 5124)

ASIAN/ORIENTAL PEAR (Pyrus pyrifolia or P. ussuriensis)

Naju - keeps till May

Yakumo - ripe September 3, 1993, crisp like apple when ripe, melon flavor

EUROPEAN PEAR (Pyrus communis)

Beirschmidt - eat right off tree, sweet, grit-free, doesn't turn brown in salad

Bartlett - Standard for pears (from England 1797,.75% US Canada production)

Rescue - mild, beautiful and very large, yellow with orange and red stripes and blush

PERSIMMON, AMERICAN (Diospyros virginiana)
Native east US, adapted wide range of soils and climates, drought resistant, yellow fruit

Garretson - good producer, ripens early

Wabash -

EUROPEAN PLUM (Prunus spp.)

Dietz or Russian: - small blue, productive, makes excellent wine

Empress Prune-Plum: - blue, very large, ripe September 1,1993

Japanese Green Gage

Mt. Royal Plum: - blue, good flavor, ripe September 1,1993, can be dried for prunes

Opal - self-fertile, freestone, red with yellow flesh (Swedish intro 1958)

Stanley Prune-Plum: - blue with bloom, most widely planted midwest (NY 1913)

Unize Plum: - sweet as a bag of sugar

ORIENTAL PLUM

Red Heart - Purple Heart may be same Rotschke

Shiro - dependable crop, excellent. yellow with pink blush (1899)

Starking Delicious Plum - red to purple flesh, ripe August 28, 1993, disease resistant

NUTS

ALMOND (Prunus dulcis var. dulcis)

Titan - one of hardiest, blooms late escapes early spring

BUTTERNUT (Juglans cinera)

Hancock -

CHESTNUT (Castanea spp.)

Gellatly - large, productive will grow ph8, like pincushion keeps squirrels at bay

Heritage American x Chinese -

FILBERT (Corylus spp.)

Morrisoka - trazel on Turkish tree hazel

O'Rourke - trazel on Turkish tree hazel

HEARTNUT (Juglans ailanthifolia var. cordiformis)

Fodermaier - large nut, cracks well

HICKORY/SHAGBARK (Carya ovata)

Yoder #1 - excellent flavor, bears young, and heavily

PECAN (Carya illinoinensis)

Devore -

Hadu -

BLACK WALNUT (Juglans nigra)

Elmer Myer - excellent flavor, prolific, produces in 3-5 years

Football - heavy producer, nuts crack into quarters

Muleman - single lobe crack out almost whole

Success -

PERSIAN WALNUT (Juglans regia)

Alpha #1 - 5 nuts on potted tree

Ambassador -

Baum - lateral bearer

Colby #2 - lateral bearer (IL Ag Ex Station)

Harrison - lateral bearer

HelmIe #9 - Carpathian strain, excellent cracking (IL Ag Ex Station)

Lake - lateral bearer (IL 1954)

Somers - Carpathian strain, (MI 1954)

 
 
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