Not a good shipping apple, but excellent for roadside and local markets. Originated as a chance seedling in the Orchard of John McIntosh in Ontario, Canada. Introduced and named around 1870. The first trees in Vermont are thought to have been planted in Berlin by William McIntosh, a relative of John. Skin is flushed with deep purplish red on pale greenish yellow ground.
Flesh is very white, faintly tinged pink, rather soft, fine-textured, juicy, and sweet.
Ripens in the third week of September. Keeps well in refrigerated storage for several months. Another McIntosh open-pollinated variety from the Central Experiment Farm in Ottawa, Canada in 1898. Introduced in 1909. An aromatic dessert apple that is ripe early to mid-August when the skin is flushed with broad, broken, pinkish stripes that cover one to three quarters of a pale greenish yellow to almost white ground.