The Arkansas Black Spur Apple is a large, late season apple fruit tree. It is a very late maturing variety grown primarily in the Southeast. The distinctive dark red skin encases a high quality fruit even where summer nights are warm. Use this apple for dessert and cooking. This is a great variety to add in a cider blend, providing a high acid, spicy flavor. They have an excellent storage life. They keep for many months. Arkansas Black blooms in mid-season and is a great pollinator for early blooming apple varieties, varieties blooming in the middle of the season, and varieties blooming late in the season.

The Wealthy Apple, Malus 'Wealthy', is the first commercial apple variety developed in Minnesota. It produces striped red fruit with a tart balanced flavor. This is a multi-purpose apple, but it is especially good for cooking, such as pies, sauces and juices. Wealthy often bears fruit the first year and keeps well. Its fruit tends to drop at maturity. This tree is cold-hardy, small in size, and usually bears fruit well. The Wealthy apple fruit is red, large, and has somewhat rough skin and the apples mature early September. Careful early training, annual pruning, and shaping, are required to insure healthy and productive trees. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

The Apple, Red Jonathan, Malus x domestica, is a round to flat, conical, medium shaped apple. Its skin is bright red with a stripe over 50'“75% of its surface. Red Jonathan has a crisp flesh, that is sweet and juicy with a tang. It is a late ripening apple that is good for hand eating, freezing or cooking. Suggested pollinators are Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, or Delicious. Refrigerated storage time: 120 days. There are varieties of apples suitable for almost all of the climate zones in the United States. They prefer cold winters, moderate summer and high humidity. Apples are deciduous and must be pollinated in order to produce fruit. Apple trees should be pruned in summer and winter. Fruit trees need a minimum of 6-8 hours of sunlight daily, and they need regular watering.

The Honeycrisp apple is a high quality apple which keeps well for 5-6 months in common storage. The tree is one of the most vigorous and hardy of apple trees, showing little damage at -40 degrees. Needs to be thinned heavily. Honeycrisp fruit is characterized by an exceptionally crisp and juicy texture. Its flesh is cream colored and coarse. The flavor is sub-acid and ranges from mild and well-balanced to strongly aromatic, depending on the degree of maturity. Great eating apple with its subacid flavor. Develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October.

Apple - Cox Orange Pippin, Malus domestica 'Cox Orange Pippin', is the classic English apple, often regarded as the finest of all dessert apples, and it remains unsurpassed for its richness and complexity of flavor. Cox Orange Pippin has a striking and attractive orange-red coloring and is definitely a superb looking and extremely tasty apple. Its medium-sized fruit has yellow skin blushed with orange-red and striped with crimson brown. The Cox Orange Pippin apple is grown for cider, cooking, and eating. The fine-textured, creamy white flesh ripens mid-fall to early winter and will not tolerate extreme cold, heat or low humidity. This upright, spreading tree is covered in pure white, cup-shaped flowers in mid and late spring, followed by first class, juicy dessert apples for harvesting in early to mid-October.

Apple - Yellow Newton Pippin, Malus domestica 'Yellow Newton Pippin', is more flavorful and holds its shape better than any other pie apple. Green with yellow highlights, this snappy, tart treat is an excellent eating apple. This all purpose apple is sweeter than Granny Smith, and it is unparalleled for cooking and baking. If you like apple pie, this is the apple for you! This vigorous tree is generally late blooming, and it needs full sun, well-drained soil, and moderate fertility. It is best to thin fruit to maximize quality and size. Yellow Newton stores well and is self fertile. For peak flavor and acid/sugar balance, wait until harvest when cheeks are yellowish-green.

The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh. Cortland apples are wonderful for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes because they don't turn brown quickly when cut. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy. It is an heavy annual bearer.

The Red Prairie Spy Apple, Malus 'Red Prairie Spy', is a red selection of Prairie Spy that has better fruit adherence on the tree at maturity. This tart apple is best for baking, very good for pies, and great for fresh eating. Red Prairie Spy is a long-term storage apple and very productive. It displays white flowers in the spring with deep green foilage. It needs another apple variety for pollination. The Red Prairie Spy was introduced by the University of Minnesota 1940. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

The State Fair Apple, Malus 'State Fair', has a flavor that is sprightly tart and good for eating and baking. It has good texture that is semi-acid to sweet. State Fair is especially recommended for trial in regions where winter hardiness and a short growing season are limiting factors, so it is one of the better early apples for northern growers. This all purpose apple is one of the better early apples, but it has a short storage life. This medium size tree is a good producer, and its fruit ripens late September to early October. It is very cold hardy and needs a pollinator. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

The Mollies Delicious apple is rated one of the best yellow delicious apples on the market. Molly Delicious apples are good for fresh eating, pies, and sauces. This apple matures in mid-season and is is very productive, vigorous tree. The fruits texture is crisp and firm.

The Red Delicious apple is America's favorite snacking apple.The Red Delicious is the most widely grown variety of apple in the world. Red Delicious apples have firm, white or cream white flesh that is juicy, aromatic, sweet tasting. They are best eaten raw because of their thick skin. The heart shaped fruit is bright red and sometimes exhibits some red striping. It is crunchy with a mildly sweet flavor. The Red Delicious is widely used in salads. Red Delicious apples look great for a long time so they are the favored choice for holiday centerpieces and wreaths. The fruit keeps fresh very well and can be found year around in stores.

The Northern Lights Apple, Malus 'Northern Lights', is a new apple variety that ripens in early mid-season (mid-September). It is a large red fruit, 3 inches in diameter, and 60 to 100 per cent of its skin is a glossy, attractive bright red. Its flavor is slightly tart, and fruity-flavored. In addition to bearing very good fruit, the tree is especially resistant to severely cold winter temperatures. It has a mild flavor, and great for eating and cooking. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.