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Northern Spy Apples

This page first published: Mar 20, 2004 · Updated: Oct 5, 2020 · by CooksInfo. Copyright © 2021 · This web site may contain affiliate links · This web site generates income via ads · Information on this site is copyrighted. Taking whole pages for your website is theft and will be DCMA'd. See re-use information.
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  • 1 Cooking Tips
  • 2 Storage Hints
  • 3 History Notes

The Northern Spy has smooth, thin skin that is a bright, dark red with yellow striping.

Inside, the finely-grained flesh is crisp, juicy and fragrant. It is white, or sometimes yellowish.

It is an all-purpose apple, though it is mostly used commercially for processing into apple products because it bruises easily in shipping.

The tree needs 3 to 4 years (10 years on standard rootstock) before it starts producing fruit. The tree blooms late, but still fruits by early October.

Grown in North America, New Zealand and Australia.

Cooking Tips

These are good cooking apples that hold their shape well in pies. The high sugar content (13.77%) makes it popular for hard cider, producing over 6% alcohol.

Storage Hints

Stores well.

History Notes

Found growing about 1800 by Heman Chapin in an orchard in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York (south of Rochester) from a seedling brought from Connecticut. The seedling had died, but resprouted. Possibly descended from the Wagener Apple.

Chapin also developed the Early Joe and Melon apples.

Tagged With: American Apples

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