This American heirloom originated in the mid 1600s and was brought West by Felix in 1888. A very popular apple of the 1800s to1900s, it’s one of the most frequent apples we have found, and for good reason! It is one of the best American culinary apples, with tender, rich, crisp, juicy and quite tart fruit, similar to a Granny Smith. The fruit is very large, round and flattened on the ends with a dark, waxy green skin that turns greenish-yellow when fully ripe. It is one of the best for apple pie and dried apples. Great fresh, as juice or for hard cider. This is Cy Rollin's favorite apple. It ripens from September to October at 4200', and keeps into February or longer. The tree is vigorous and very productive with a larger fruit and lighter crop in alternate years. It is considered one of the most long-lived of apples.

We collect our grafting material from grandmother trees in Alleghany, Sierra County @ 4200’, Buck’s Ranch on the San Juan Ridge, Nevada County @ 4100’ and Graniteville in Nevada County @ 5,000’. These great old mining camps have a ton of history, did I tell ya?