Aroostook Sunset Apple

-30°F(?) Chance seedling; parentage unknown. Ripens in October. Pale yellow striped carmine. 

One of America's oldest cider apples, first recorded in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1817, with some accounts placing the tree there before the Revolution. White, fine-grained flesh is crisp, juicy, and subacid. Pleasant fresh, but prized above all for cider; heavy-yielding and high-quality. Vigorous trees bear young and heavily. Keeps well into winter. Long presumed variety unsuited to hard winters, but trees identified as "Aroostook Sunset," an old apple growing in northern Maine, have recently DNA-tested as this variety, suggesting Smith's Cider may be considerably hardier than previously believed. The trees have grown well in Potsdam, NY, but have yet to bear fruit in our orchard.

3-5 foot trees.