A garden variety dessert apple raised from open-pollinated Cherry Crab at Excelsior, Minnesota around 1860. An extremely hardy splashed skin on pale whitish-green to pale yellow ground. Flesh is white, tinged pink beneath the skin, soft, coarse-textured, juicy, and sweet. Ripe in mid-October. Introduced before 1817 and still widely grown in southern fruit areas.
Fruit is outstanding for both eating and cooking.
Ripens in mid-October to a deep red. Also known as Stayman. A large, attractive, cooking apple raised near Wolf River, Wisconsin about 1875. Very smooth skin is flushed purplish red, becoming bright red with numerous very short, broad, broken, red stripes on a pale green to pale yellowish white ground. Flesh is white, tinged green, fine-textured, dry and moderately acid.