Monarch is an 1800s English apple, a larger and sweeter alternative to ‘Bramley’ and needs little or no sugar when cooked. It’s medium to large blushed, red fruit, with thin skin, soft and pure-white flesh are high quality for culinary and processing. The fruit produces a juicy puree with a smooth creamy texture. Keeps well. Ripe in October at 3200', stores through January. The tree is vigorous, upright, spreading, heavy bearing. Easy to grow. Resistant to late frost and apple scab. Partially self fertile, but will increase crops with another apple pollinator variety.

The 125+ year young grandmother tree grows in the town of Humbug, in Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park on the San Juan Ridge of Nevada County, CA at 3,250’ elevation. Humbug is the site of one of the original and largest hydraulic gold mines, and was a roaring, long-term, large mining town, abundant with wonderful heirloom fruits and nuts that we will be introducing over the next few years.