This is a famous cider variety that also makes a delicious fresh eating apple. Developed in the 1800s Pennsylvania, this apple has a sweet to sweet-sharp flavor profile, with a nice hint of honey. The medium to large roundish fruit has thin, smooth and glossy skin, bright, pale yellow, shaded with pinkish-red. The white flesh is firm, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, aromatic and sprightly. Ripens in October through December. Not a long keeper. Vigorous tree, bears young and is highly productive. True to its name, it is a good juice and cider apple.

Our now feral grandmother tree grows in a very old homestead mixed orchard in the old mining town of Pike City, Sierra County, CA @ 3500’. Pike was a bustling mining and logging town in the late 1800s. The trees have outlived the structures, as there is no trace of them still visible. We have discovered numerous new-to-us varieties in Pike, that we will be introducing over the next few season.