| Early Fall. Branch sport of St. Lawrence. Newburgh,
ME(Penobscot County), 20th c Occasionally apple trees will have whole branch sports
(mutations) such as this one. By grafting from that branch, a new 'variety' can be
replicated indefinitely. One branch on Roger Luce's St. Lawrence tree in Newburgh
bears apples with a distinctly redder ground color, unlike the typical light green.
Like St. Lawrence however, the ground color is in turn overlaid with even darker red
stripes. The result is a solid red apple overspread with deep dark red stripes. There
is no apple that looks like it. Quite striking in appearance. High quality fresh
eating, and especially valuable as a fall culinary apple. Tender sweet mildly sub-acid
flesh, tinted with red. Moderately vigorous long-lived healthy medium-sized tree. Good
to heavy crops, ripening unevenly over several weeks. |
