Variety |
Month |
Uses |
History |
Wealthy |
July through September |
pies, sauces, cider |
Developed by horticulturalist Peter Gideon of Excelsior, Minnesota. Introduced in 1893. |
Early Harvest |
late July to early August |
fresh eating, pies, sauces, desserts |
Believed to have originated in the 1700s in what is now Long Island, New York. |
Duchess |
mid August |
fresh eating, pies, sauces |
Originated in Russia in the late 1700s. Brought to America in 1835. |
Summer Rambo |
August to early September |
pies, sauces, desserts |
Originated in the village of Rambures France prior to its first documentation in 1536. Have been widely grown in Eastern U.S. since 1767. |
Gravenstein |
late August to early September |
fresh eating, pies, sauce |
Two possible origins. Circa 1660 Italy, wood from the trees were propagated in Jutland Denmark. The other story details the variety being grown from seeds originating from Holland. |
Lodi |
late August to early September |
fresh eating, cooking, baking, sauces |
Originated at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1911. This variety was developed by taking the pips of the Yellow transparent and crossed with pollen from the Montgomery variety. |
Starr |
early September |
cooking |
Found as a chance seedling on John Starr's farm near Woodburg New Jersey in the late 1700s. |
Rome |
September |
all-purpose, pies, cider |
First identified in 1846. Considered one of the best baking apples. |
Smokehouse |
September |
fresh eating, cooking, baking, cider |
This variety developed in the early 1800s from a chance seedling that grew near the smokehouse of William Gibbons near Millcreek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. |
Thompkins King |
September |
fresh eating, baking, cider |
This variety was originally found growing in Warren County of New Jersey and was brought to Tompkins County New York in 1804. |
Mother |
mid to late September |
fresh eating, pies |
Originated on the farm of General Stephen Gardner in Bolton Massachusetts sometime before 1844 when it was listed in the "Magazine of Horticulture." |
Baldwin |
late September to Early October |
fresh eating, cider, pies |
Originated in Wilmington Massachusetts in 1784. The Baldwin apple was at one point the most popular in New England. |
Cortland |
late September |
fresh eating, baking |
Developed in Geneva, New York in 1898 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. |
Delicious |
late September to early October |
fresh eating |
Discovered in Peru Iowa as a chance seedling in the 1870s. |
Grimes Golden |
late September to early October |
fresh eating, apple sauce |
Found as a wild seedling in Brooks County, West Virginia in the 1800s. Ancestry is obscure since it likely grew unnoticed from a discarded apple core. |
Jefferis |
late September to early October |
fresh eating, cider |
Arose as a chance seedling in Chester County, Pennsylvania in the early 1830s. Seedling was on the farm of Isaac Jefferis. |
Jonathan |
late September to early October |
cider |
Found growing on the farm of Philip Rick in Woodstock, New York in the early 1800s. |
McIntosh |
late September |
all purpose |
John McIntosh discovered the original sapling on his farm in upper Canada in 1811. He cultivated the fruit and started selling it in 1835. |
Yellow Bellflower |
late September |
pies, sauces |
Originated as a wild seedling in Burlington County, New Jersey in the mid 1700s. |
Rome Beauty |
late September to early October |
cooking, cider |
This chance seedling was found in 1816 by Joel Gillett. He found this seedling among 100 apple trees he had purchased from a nursery in Marietta, Ohio. |
Rhode Island Greening |
late September to early October |
fresh eating, cooking, pies |
Grown from a pippin in the mid 1600s by the tavern keeper at Green's End near Newport, Rhode Island. |
Roxbury Russet |
late September to early October |
pies, sauces, dessert, cider |
Generally recognized as the oldest apple variety originating in North America. Was first discovered and named in mid 1600s Roxbury (part of present-day Boston). |
Campfield |
October |
pies, sauces, cider |
Originated in the latter half of the 1700s near present-day Newark, New Jersey. |
Golden Russet |
October |
fresh eating, cider |
Originated in Horshum, West Sussex of the United Kingdom. An old English heritage variety. |
Kerry Irish Pippin |
October |
fresh eating |
This heritage apple had been grown for some time in counties Kikenny and Antrim in Ireland before it was first mentioned in a 1802 statistical survey of the county by the Royal Dublin Society. |
Newtown Pippin |
October |
fresh eating, sauces, pies |
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were two noted admirers of this fruit. Found as a chance seedling during the early 1700s in the village of Newtown (present-day Long Island). |
Turley Winesap |
early October |
baking, cooking, cider |
Introduced in 1900 by horticulturalist Joe A. Burton in Lawrence County, Indiana. |
Ashmed's Kernal |
late October |
fresh eating, cooking, sauces, cider |
Known as an old English winter russet apple. The first tree originated from a seed planted around 1700 by a Dr. Thomas Ashmead in Gloucester. |
Northern Spy |
late October |
fresh eating, pies, cider |
Grown by Heman Chapin near East Bloomfield, New York around 1800. |
Spitzenburg |
late October |
fresh eating, cooking, pies, cider |
Found in the mid 1700s as a seedling growing along the banks of the Hudson River near present day Ulster County, New York. |
Stayman |
mid to late October |
fresh eating, pies, sauces, cider |
First grown by Dr. Stayman of Leavenworth, Kansas in the 1860s. |
York |
late October |
fresh eating, cooking |
Originated in the late 1700s in York, Pennsylvania. |