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Cameo
The Cameo apple produces raves from growers and consumers. The fruits have a red stripe over a yellow-light green undercolor. The Cameo fruit is medium to large and uniform in size. The flavor has been judged to be faintly sweet/tart with excellent eating quality. This variety is widely heralded as one of the most flavorful, crispy, and juicy apples anywhere. The Cameo matures one week before Fuji and has a long harvest and storage window.
Ginger Gold
The Ginger Gold apple is great as a snack or multi-purpose cooking and baking apple that holds its shape when cooked. The fruit is medium to large, round to oblate, and it has a smooth skin. A mature Ginger Gold is yellow with a slight red, striped blush. The fruit flesh is a white cream color and is slow to discolor or oxidize which makes this apple a natural for salads, slices and chunks or garnishes. The fruits texture is crisp and firm.
Mollies Delicious
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.
Mutsu
The Mutsu Apple has a moderately sweet flavor with firm, juicy and cramy white flesh. Its skin color is a yellowish green with an orange blush. The Mutsu apple is also known as Crispin. This apple is vigorous, fairly early, and the fruit is large and oblong shaped. It is excellent for fresh eating, sauces, pies, and baking. This apple stores and keeps well.
Dolgo
The Crabapple Dolgo produces pink buds that open to fragrant, white flowers. The glossy, dark green foliage turns yellow in the fall. Dolgo Crabapples are large and are bright red. They are excellent for jellies. This hardy tree is upright with an open habit and is very ornamental. The Dolgo is a superb apple pollinator for other apple trees.
Cresthaven
The Cresthaven Peach tree produces a very firm, highly colored red fruit. The Cresthaven peach is yellow fleshed and shows considerable red around the pit. This tree is very productive and is also a freestone. The clear, firm flesh is resistant to browning and the skin is smooth but tough.
Arkansas Black
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.
Pink Lady- (Cripps Pink Variety)
Pink Lady- (Cripps Pink Variety)
Pink Lady Apple, which is also known as the Cripps Pink variety, is a new hot climate apple from Western Australia. Pink Lady is a very good apple for those of you south of the Mason-Dixon line. It is a large apple with a pink blush over a yellow undertone with no russetting. The flesh is creamy and crisp. The flesh resists browning when cut. It has a sweet-tart taste similar to, but generally rated better than Granny Smith. Pink Lady (Cripps Pink Variety) maturity date is 10-15 days after Granny Smiths. This apple tree does not need a pollinator. Pink Lady (Cripps Pink Variety) will not mature properly in USA in zone 5, due to low autumn temperatures.
Tomcot
The Tomcot Apricot is a very consistent and productive apricot variety. The large, orange fruit is firm and the flesh is sweet.The Tomcat Apricot will be ready for harvest, 2-3 weeks before Wenatchee and 4 days before Goldstrike and Goldbar. This fruit tree is partly self-fruitful but they will produce larger crops if cross-pollinated by another apricot. The fruit ripens in early July, 2.5 weeks before Wenatchee and 4 days before Goldstrike and Goldbar. The skin is a light-orange color and slightly glossy. A trace of blush develops on the side that is exposed to the sun. The pit is medium-large and free from the flesh.
Arctic Glo
The Arctic Glo Nectarine Tree is an exciting new sprightly-sweet, early season white-fleshed nectarine. The Arctic Glo has scored high in taste tests. The taste has a nice balance of sugar and acid which makes for a very appealing flavor. The Arctic Glo is a is a semi-freestone and is highly recommended for home orchards. The fruit is produced is medium sized with a dark red skin. Arctic Glo fruit matures about 5 days after the Redhaven Nectarine. This tree does not need a pollinator.
White Lady
The White Lady Peach Tree is among the best of the new low acid, high sugar, fresh market white peaches. The red-skinned fruits are medium to large, very firm, and is a freestone. It was one of the top scoring varieties at a blind fruit tasting event. The average fruit diameter is 2.5 to 3.0 inches. The harvest season begins in late July. Eighty to 95% of the fruit surface is covered with a dark pinkish red over a cream background.The White Lady does not need a pollinator to produce fruit.
Blakes Pride
The Blake’s Pride Pear tree fruit has a sweet, rich taste and aroma, and is lovely to look at as its skin is mostly golden and light-yellow. Blake’s Pride Pear is a new pear variety that offers great taste and fireblight resistance. Blake’s Pride is moderate in size, averaging almost 3 inches in diameter, with a short, upright stem on the fruit. It harvests about three weeks after Bartlett and it stores very well. The tree for Blake’s Pride is moderate in vigor and upright-spreading. Yield is moderate to high, with the first crop three to four years after planting. Suggested pollinators are D’Anjou or Bartlet Pear.
Superior
The Superior Plum trees is a Japanese variety selected for it’s large size, vigor, and hardiness.The Superior is a good variety for cold regions. It will bear fruit early. The Superior fruit is fire red with yellow flesh, ripening the first days of August. It is a great pollinator for other Japanese plum varieties. Superior requires another Japanese plum for pollination. Wiith this plum tree, you have a tree that bears earlier and heavier than most plum trees. The fruit ripens in August-September. A good plum tree for Zone 4.
Green Gage-Bavays
The Green Gage Plum Tree, a European plum, is later blooming than Santa Rosa and other Japanese types. The Green Gage has a full-bodied flavor, smooth texture and lime-green color. The cling fruit ripens in early September. It is self-pollinating. This Plum tree is a long-time favorite for dessert, cooking, and canning. The fruit is tender and juicy. Green Gage is a relatively small tree with very good productivity.
Methley
The Methley Plum Tree produces juicy, sweet, red flesh with a mild flavor. This early variety has reddish-purple skin and blood red flesh. The Methley plum tree is very attractive in appearance and vigorous. The Methley is self-fruitful so no pollinator is needed. This early variety has red-purple skin and soft, juicy, blood-red flesh. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and birds and the flowers are fragrant. It is drought-tolerant and is a regular bearer.
Echtermeyer
The Echtermeyer Weeping Crabapple, ‘Malus Echtermeyer’, is an attractive, small, weeping ornamental tree. The weeping side limbs produce large purplish-red flowers. New foliage has a purplish tinge and turns to bronze-green as the leaves mature. The Echtermeyer produces 1′ purplish-red fruit. The trunk requires staking for the first few years. The weeping form can be easily maintained at any size because it grows in a succession of leaders. It performs best in well drained soil in full sun.
Prairifire
The PrairifireGCrimson Crabapple tree, ‘Malus ‘Prairiefire’, produces gorgeous buds followed by long-lasting, single, hot pink blossoms. The new foliage is reddish-maroon, aging to reddish-green. The Prairifire is highly resistant to fireblight, scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew. The tree form is upright, spreading, and becoming eventually round at maturity. The purple-red fruits are first to be noticed in late June and hang through early December. The firm fruits age to a cherry red. This red leafed tree has very attractive mahogany colored bark and persistent ornamental fruit. It is probably the most disease resistant of all crabapple selections.
Dapple Dandy
The Dapple Dandy Pluot, (interspecific), ‘Prunus pluot’, fruit tree is a taste test winner. It ranks with Flavor King and Flavor Supreme Pluot as a best-tasting fruit. The creamy white and red-fleshed pluot has a wonderful plum-apricot flavor. The fruit skin is greenish-yellow with red spots, turning to a maroon and yellow dapple as it matures . It can be pollenized by Flavor Supreme Pluot, Santa Rosa or Burgundy Plum. The complex, intense flavor of Pluot is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. Additionally, the sugar content of the interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot–yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness.
Flavor Grenade
The Flavor Grenade Pluot, (interspecific), ‘Prunus pluot’, produces an elongated bi-colored fruit with a red blush. The Fire Grenade has a crisp texture and explosive flavor. The fruit is juicy and firm an will hang on the tree for 4 to 6 weeks. Pollenate with a Japanese plum. The stone pit is small and it is a freestone. The complex, intense flavor of Pluot is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. Additionally, the sugar content of the interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot–yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness.
Flavor King
The Flavor King Pluot (interspecific), ‘Prunus pluot’, is a taste test winner. It is a unique plum-apricot hybrid. The remarkable, spicy bouquet and flavor explode the taste buds. The fruit has a reddish-purple skin and sweet red flesh. Teh Flavor King is a naturally small tree. I can be pollenized by Flavor Supreme, Santa Rosa or Late Santa Rosa. The complex, intense flavor of Pluot is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. Additionally, the sugar content of the interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot–yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness.
Flavor Delight
The Flavor Delight Aprium, is a cross of a apricot and a plum tree. The Flavor Delight is 3/4 Apricot and 1/4 Plum with a very sweet taste. The flesh of the fruit is yellow and firm like an apricot but contains the taste of both fruits. This fruit of this self-fertile tree ripens in Late June and with proper pruning can be maintained around 10 feet tall. Even though the Flavor Delight is self-fruitful, larger fruit will be achieved by pollinating with any other apricot tree.
Gala
The Gala apple blends modern and old-fashioned parentage.The Gala matures to a bright overall red color, with bold red stripes over a yellow background. The fruit is firm, juicy, fine textured, with a yellow white flesh. The Gala is sweet, with a slightly tart flavor. It is a highly coveted apple by the consumer, with great bouquet, flavor and color. It is aromatic with a very sweet flavor and it has a crisp and firm texture. The Gala ripens early and stores very well (shelf life-6 months in regular storage). The Gala, a fresh fruit delight, is very much in demand for fresh salads and it’s got the mild flavor that “picky eaters” prefer and a striking bright yellow-red color that attracts the eye!
Wenatchee
The Wenatachee Apricot bears large size fruit. This apricot may also be called Moorpark The fruit and skin is a light yellow. The Wenatchee is known for being a good annual producer. The fruit is flavorful and is widely used for drying and home canning. It is a self-pollinating tree. The Wenatachee blooms very early so it is sometimes difficult in late frost areas. It produces best in well drained and moderately fertile soil. Thin fruit early in season for size/quality.
Bing
The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
Bartlett
The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. The fruit is aromatic and is outstanding for fresh eating. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit. They do require bees to help pollinate. Bartlett Pears do not ripen properly on the tree, so growers pick the fruit when it is mature but green.
Utah Giant Cherry
The Utah Giant cherry is more flavorful, larger and more firm than a Bing or a Lambert. When comparing or choosing sweet cherries the Utah Giant should be part of your selection process. The flesh color is dark red and very sweet. Just pick right off the tree and enjoy. The Utah Giant is a great western disease-resistant variety that blooms with the Bing cherry. As a pollinator is required, a couple good choices are the Bing, Rainier or the Van.
English Morello Cherry
The English Morello is a fantastic late-ripening tart cherry for pie making and cooking, sometimes eaten fresh when fully ripe. Dark red to nearly black fruit with dark juice can be used when making liqueurs and brandies. These cherries are often found canned, packed in syrup or dried and in preserves. This cherry also freezes well.
Polly White Peach
The Polly peach also know as the Polly White peach is one of the most winter hardy peach varieties. The tree was developed in Iowa and is hardy to ‘20 degrees Fahrenheit. This peach has all the eating characteristics you are seeking, sweet, medium-sized and white fleshed. It sports a crimson-blushed white skin.
Potomac Pear
The Potomac pear is a Moonglow x Beurre D’Anjou cross which has a pleasingly subacid buttery flavor, and similar to the Beurre D’Anjou in character. The fruit size averages 2 -+’. This pear is a great fresh-market pear for commercial growers and homeowners that combines superior resistance to fire blight with good-quality fruit.
Warren Pear
The Warren pear is sweet and juicy which is why it is a favorite of many backyard gardeners. Warren pears have exceptional keeping qualities. Extremely resistant to fireblight and is cold hardy to -20 degrees Fahrenheit. Medium to large, long-necked fruit with pale green skin, sometimes blushed red. The flesh is smooth (with no grit cells) and the fruit is juicy and buttery with superb flavor. Medium to large, long-necked fruit with pale green skin, sometimes blushed red. Self-fruitful, no pollenizer required.
Fuyu Jiro Persimmon
The Fuyu ‘ Jiro Persimmon is also called an ‘Apple Persimmon.’ It produces a medium size, flat shaped fruit. It is still hard and crisp when ripe, which makes it a great choice for fresh eating, sliced in fruit salads, dries well and can be frozen. The nonastringent Fuyu sought after for its extremely sweet flavor and minimal seeds. Persimmons offer an excellent source of fiber and contain lots of vitamin A and are a source for vitamin C. The Fuyu is often used as an ornamental tree as it is a very attractive tree and practically pest free.
Hachiya Persimmon
The Hachiya persimmon fruit is large and displays a deep orange-red color and is acorn-shaped. A hot summer is required to mature the fruit. It is sweet, flavorful, and astringent till soft-ripe. The mature fruit can be frozen and thawed to ripen. Persimmons offer an excellent source of fiber and contain lots of vitamin A and are a source for vitamin C. The tree can be used as an ornamental tree. In the fall the trees are extremely beautiful as the green leaves begin turning shades of yellow, orange and red.
Wonderful Pomegranate
The Wonderful pomegranate could have received it name for the large, purple-red fruit with a delicious flavor is produces. It’s low chill hours of 150 hours below 40 degrees fits most coastal locations. Its glossy leaves with showy reddish-orange blossoms in late spring are an added feature in your yard. The long-lived nature of the Wonderful pomegranate and the fact it will survive in less than perfect growing conditions make this tree a Number 1 seller. Great for juicing!
Braeburn
The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It’s great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life. Its eating qualities make it adaptable for cooking as well as fresh use.
Cortland
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.
Fuji
Fuji apples have it all–super sweet, super juicy and super crisp. What a great snacking apple! Fuji apples are aromatic, sweet, juicy and crisp with a firm texture. The Fuji’s appearance varies from yellow-green with red highlights to mostly red. The Fuji’s spicy, crisp sweetness gives it exceptional eating quality. The Fuji is excellent for fresh salads. The Fuji is quickly becoming an apple with a large consumer audience.
Golden Delicious
The Golden Delicious apple is an excellent all purpose cooking apple. This apple has firm, white flesh that retains its shape when baked or cooked. Its rich mellow flavor, sweet and crisp, is an asset to any recipe.You can cut down the sugar in pies and sauces made from Golden Delicious apples. The skin is so tender and thin that you can skip peeling for many recipes. It is also outstanding when used in a fruit bowl and for fresh fruit.
Granny Smith
The Granny Smith apples have been cultivated for at least 140 years. Sour apple fans will tell you that the Granny Smith should not be cooked, but eaten raw. If you crave and enjoy a juicy burst of tartness, this apple is for you. This glorious tree has handsome supermarket-size (up to 3″ diameter) apples. Plant these in the yard and you’ll be pickin’ sweet and hearty apples when the snow flies, because they ripen in early November! That tart flavor really lasts, and stays fresh all winter and spring. Granny Smith is your kind of apple. It is known for keeping its zesty flavor even when it is used for cooking or saut+ed.
Honeycrisp
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.
McIntosh
The McIntosh apple is a early and heavy producer. The flesh is white, soft and fine-textured. The flavor is distinctively tangy and aromatic. The McIntosh has a rather tough skin that has mixed red and green coloring. It’s a favorite apple for eating out of hand but also is widely used in salads, sauces, pies. It is a mainstay in fresh cider and an all-time favorite for fresh eating and salads. It has a large fruit and is used in juice, pies, and eating raw.
Red Delicious
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.
Sonata
The Sonata apple has a taste that is similar to a Golden. It is a medium sized apple with excellent flavor. It is a very attractive apple, with a bright, pinkish red blush over a yellow background. With a firm and finely grained, creamy colored flesh, it is cold hardy and highly precocious and productive. The Sonata keeps well in storage, retaining its flavor essences better than Gala. We highly recommend Sonata for hobbyists and home gardeners as this is truly a gourmet apple. Sonata apple trees have low to medium vigor. Matures similar to Golden Delicious. Primary assets are the combined excellent cosmetics with a pleasant exciting flavor.
Wine Sap
The Winesap apple is an old apple variety. It is still one of the leading strains being grown in the US. Winesap apples are good for eating, juice, and baking. Juicy and tart, the Winesap apple has a crisp, yellowish flesh covered with a deep red skin. This all-purpose apple has good keeping qualities. The fruit is good sized. The flesh is tinged with yellow and sometimes red veins run through it. It is a firm, rather coarse, moderately crisp apple with a sprightly, medium acid taste. It is resistant to russeting.
Goldbar
The Goldbar apricot produces very large, light yellow-orange fruit with reddish blush. The fruit is round to oval with slightly compressed sides and is very large. The skin is light-orange and slightly glossy. A reddish blush covers up to 30% of the side that is exposed to the sun. The flesh is light orange, very firm, meaty and moderately juicy. Some acidity is associated with the skin. Quality for the fresh market is good. The pit is large and freestone. Goldbar is not suitable for canning. It is a vigorous tree that flowers heavily but sets light crop, which increases fruit size.
Goldstrike
The Goldstrike apricot has large and firm fruit. The fruit is round to slightly oval and is very large when well-thinned. The skin is a light-orange color and slightly glossy. A reddish blush covers up to 20% of the side that is exposed to the sun. The flesh is light orange, firm, meaty and moderately juicy. Some acidity is associated with the skin. The pit is medium-large and free from the flesh. Goldstrike is not suitable for canning. Goldstrike trees bloom heavily but fruit set is often moderate to light under natural pollination. This apricot has excellent eating quality. It will cross-pollinate with the Goldbar.
Tilton
The Tilton apricot is the leading variety for freezing, drying, and canning. Tilton apricots are a unique looking apricot and are one of the most flavorful of all apricots. Their appearance is noted by having a slightly flatter shape with a “suture” line that goes halfway around the fruit. This longtime favorite is tender and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. It has medium sized fruit that is heart shaped. It has a light orange skin. The flesh is firm and flavorful and it has a golden color with a red blush. A vigorous tree which bears heavy crops and is resistant to late frosts. One of the earliest ripening fruits. Blooms very early and ripens late June to early July.
Lapin
The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for “rabbit”, is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. They are great for snacking, and so big, one cherry is a mouthful! The skin is bright in appearance and it is split resistant due to flexible skin. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.
Montmorency
The Montmorency cherry is the most popular sour cherry in America and it is the classic pie cherry tree. Montmorency cherries have proven over the years to be outstanding for cooking and pie-making. The tree ripens the fruit in June and grows about 15 feet tall. The Montmorency cherry tree is self fertile and produces medium sized, dark red, cherries with good flavor and quality. Flesh is clear and yellow in color.
Rainier
The Rainier Cherry tree produces sweet, large, yellow fruit with a red blush. The fruit is firm and the flesh is fine-textured and clear to light yellow. Fans of the Rainier appreciate the creamy-yellow flesh, which gives the blush of the skin a sunny undertone. The sweetness is what keeps them coming back for more. The Rainier has a distinct sweet flavor. It is a very productive tree that resists cracking, spurs and doubles. The tree will pollinate with the Bing Cherry. It will not self-pollinate.
Stella
The Stella cherry is self-fruitful - no pollenizer needed. It has a large, nearly black, richly flavored sweet cherry. Similar to its parent, Lambert. Expect a later harvest with the Stella cherry. It will pollinate with the Bing cherry tree, except in mild winter climates. The flesh is also black in color. It is an excellent cherry for fresh eating. It is also resistant to cracking. Tree bears at a young age. Tree eventually reaches 15 to 16 feet tall. Watch for birds, they love the Stella.
Sweetheart
The Sweetheart Cherry tree is a new self-fruitful cherry tree. It produces a fruit that remains crunchy when picked and eaten. The tree resists cracking and ripens late. It is fast becoming a popular cherry tree. Because the Sweetheart is self-pollinating, it can be used in location where you would only want to plant one tree for delightful cherry fruit. Sweetheart Cherries are the last cherry of the season! Their unique taste is a spectacular finale for the summer. Stretch out the cherry season with the Sweetheart cherry.
Van
The Van cherry is very hardy. Resembles Bing cherries because the fruit is similar to Bing, though usually smaller. Pollinizer is required. It will pollinate (inter-fruitful) with all popular sweet cherries. Enjoy magnificent cherry blossoms every spring. Van is one of the best pollinators for any other sweet cherry tree. The Van cherry tree is hardy, vigorous and a prolific bearer of high quality sweet cherries.
Chestnut
The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2″ in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It usually has a partially russeted skin and hangs well on the tree. It is a very productive annual bearer, and is loaded with white blooms in the bloom stage. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Indian Summer
The Indian Summer Crabapple has abundant pink flowers with an extended blooming period. It blooms with King bloom of Red Delicious apple tree. Attractive rose-red flowers in spring followed by bright red fruit 3/4″ in diameter. Excellent disease resistance. Indian Summer crabapples can take cold, shifts in temperatures, semi-arid climate and brisk winds. With sweeping branches, symmetrical shapes and modest proportions they add beauty as well as providing good pollen.