Small to Medium, Flavorful, Mid Season, Beautiful

This unknown apple is round, small to medium, crisp, flavorful, sweet and slightly tart. A great eater, juicer, sauce maker. It is a uniquely beautiful yellow apple splashed and dusted with pink, orange and red. A soft russet radiates from the stem cavity. It is a reliable producer and ripens in September at 4200' elevation.

The new owners of the property bought it from a woman who grew up eating these apples in Forest City. She and her mother loved this particular apple best. Anyone in the town was allowed to pick anything in the small orchard, except this one variety because It was their personal favorite. She said it was planted in the 1920's.

Today Forest City is a Ghost town of a dozen buildings or so, built in the 1850s, it was an important mining camp and trade center. Unfortunately not a lot of details were recorded about the mining camp, but the population was estimated at over 1,000 with over 30 commercial businesses during the boom years.