English heirloom from the early 1800s. The showy fruit is large to very large with yellowish white skin, striped and splashed with bright red. The flesh is yellowish white, juicy, crisp with brisk sub acid and good flavor. Great for fresh eating and juice. Very good for sauce and dried fruit. It has a unique 'sheep snout’ shape. Ripens November through January and even later at 4500 feet. Great resistance to late frosts and rains, and bears crops in all types of weather. We went out to collect scions in December and found fruit, still in good shape, on the tree. Moderate resistance to fireblight, scab and codling moth.

The completely wild grandmother tree grows in the overgrown brush and shadows of the cedar trees of Forest City in Sierra County, CA. Forest was a very productive gold mining camp beginning in 1852. Once known as "Forks of Oregon Creek", the town prospered and over 1000 individuals called Forest City home, with a new schoolhouse, newspaper, 4 hotels, 10 saloons, a brewery, dance hall, dairy, jail, firehouse, and general store. Fire hit in 1883 and destroyed 82 buildings. The fire occurred at the same time the Bald Mountain Mine began to play out, thus marking the decline of Forest City. The remaining town is full of antique pears, apples and cherries that we will be introducing over the next several years. Apples are particularly productive and long-lived at this 4500’ site.