September/October2002 Excerpt

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Chart: Apple Varieties for Every Use

There are many more heirloom apples available than we had room to highlight in our article. The following varieties are highly recommended for the uses specified.

Dessert (eating fresh):

Blacktwig, Yates, Sulser Red, Ingram, Hudson's Golden Gem, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Mother, Red June, Tolman Sweet

Applesauce and Apple Butter:

Yellow Transparent, Early Strawberry, Manet, King David, Calville Blanc, Buff, Yellow Bellflower, Jonathan, Wagener

 Baking:

Ben Davis, Beecher, Summer Orange, Blacktwig, Summer King, Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Rome Beauty, Yellow Bellflower

 Drying:

Benham, Horse, Black Gilliflower, Summer Rambo, Winesap, Rome Beauty

Long Keeping (storing for later use):

Arkansas Black, Ben Davis, Yates, Shockley, Roxbury Russet, Northern Spy, Sierra Beauty, Swaar

Cider:

Porter's Perfection, Kingston Black, Muscat de Bernay, Baldwin, Tolman Sweet, Golden Russet, King David, Foxwhelp