attractive apple with a glossy lemon-yellow rus- 

 set-free finish and a pink-red cheek. It ripens 

 about seven to ten days before Golden Delicious, 

 but some uneven ripening may force two har- 

 vests. It shows some tendency to drop prema- 

 txirely. Flavor was fruity, sweet and perfumy, 

 with a taste of Ucorice. The tree is spujr-type and 

 upright, and some reports indicate that it may 

 not be too productive. This apple is unsurpassed 

 for appearance and flavor. 



Honeycrisp 



This Minnesota selection is the result of a 

 cross between Honeygold and Macoun. Many 

 Honeycrisp trees will be planted in the next few 

 years because it has outstanding storage poten- 

 tial and fruit following regular air storage have 

 'explosive crispness'. Fruit harvested on Sep- 

 tember 14 with firmness of 17.8 pounds still had 

 firmness above 17 pounds at the end of January 

 in air storage. Honeycrisp is a very large apple 

 but its not too attractive, because color is slow to 

 develop and is striped rather than blush. Qual- 

 ity at harvest is good but not exceptional, and 

 the longer Honeycrisp stays in storage the bet- 

 ter it looks compared with other cultivars. 

 Honeycrisp fruit from Massachusetts were in- 

 cluded in a replicated taste evaluation at the 

 Mid-Atlantic Fruit Variety Showcase in West 

 Virginia in January. Numerically, Honeycrisp 

 was judged to be the best tasting apple and 

 statistically it was equal to Fuji and Braebum. 

 Over the past four years Honeycrisp on M.26 

 has been the most productive apple in our culti- 

 var evaluation plots. It produced over 1.5 bush- 

 els per tree in the fourth leaf 



NY 429 



This very large burgundy-red apple is from 

 the New York breeding program. It has very 

 good quahty and the flesh is creamy white. 

 Even when cropped very heavily, fruit wiU size 

 to 3.25 inches or larger. It may be biennial if not 

 thinned. Trees are very productive. NY 429 is 

 already in commercial production in the 

 Hudson Valley of New York and prices of $20 



per bushel were reported in 1993 in the Apple 

 Report for the Massachusetts Department of 

 Food and Agriculture. NY 429 will be named 

 soon. 



NY 75414-1 



This cultivar is the best disease-resistant 

 apple from New York. It is medium large, red, 

 and a Macoun look-alike. Scarf skin may be a 

 problem in some areas but in New England it is 

 a plus because it is also a characteristic of 

 Macoun. It is attractive, somewhat tart, and 

 very crisp. Taste is Macoun- and Mclntosh-like. 

 Trees are vigorous and nonspur. 



Sansa 



This outstanding apple is the result of a 

 cross between Gala and Akane. It was one of the 

 highest rated apples, regardless of the season of 

 harvest. Fruit were attractive, very crisp, aro- 

 matic, sweet, and the flavor was subtly spicy at 

 first but it soon developed into a fully flavored 

 apple with pineapple, banana, and licorice 

 taste. Sansa did not drop and it could have been 

 harvested over a three-week period (the three 

 weeks prior to Gala). It stored for up to two 

 months. Although it softened, it maintained 

 flavor, unlike Gala which maintains firmness 

 and crispness but loses the essence of the flavor 

 that makes it Gala. Fruit were of medium size. 

 Sansa is the best tasting apple that ripens 

 before Mcintosh. The first commercial 

 plantings wiU go in the ground in 1995. 



Suncrisp (NJ 55) 



This cultivar produces medium to large late- 

 season yellow apples. Finish on this apple was 

 not very good but the striped orange-red cheek 

 over lemon-yeUow ground color is distinctive 

 and somewhat attractive. Fruit is conic with a 

 crisp yellow flesh. The acidity is quite high at 

 harvest but the sharpness and tartness mellow 

 in storage. Flavor is excellent. It is a very good 

 apple to help spread out the harvest season and 

 it has good storage potential. 



Fruit Notes, Spring, 1994 



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