Apple 'Priscilla'

One of the best apple cultivars for low-pesticide growing in the home/garden/landscape. Resistant to all 4 major apple diseases.
<...Read Morebr /> Info from Cornell:
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/organic_guide/apples.pdf
Mid-season dark red apple matures with Empire. Fruit develops 70-90% red blush over pale yellow background. Flesh is pale, creamy colored, crisp, medium-grained, and juicy, with mild flavor, low acid, and can have licorice flavors and aromas. Fruit size can be small, if not properly thinned. Annual cropping. Fruit hangs on the tree until overripe. Retains quality for two to three months or more in refrigerated storage, if properly handled. Very prone to watercore. Resistant to scab, rust, mildew, and fire blight. Suggested for home garden use and small scale commercial plantings where the unique flavor can be used as an advantage in specialty markets.

Held by the USDA at Geneva

Notes from GRIN
Medium size, slightly conical fruit with 65% bright red blush over yello...Read Morew background. Crisp, coarse mildly subacid, white to slightly greenish flesh. Good flavor and quality. Will store for three months. Fruit hangs well. Immune to scab; resistant to fire blight, powdery mildew and cedar- apple rust. Picks with Jonathan in mid-September. Good Introduced 1972. Provided by Rutgers Univ., New Jersey

Developed in: Indiana, United States
Parent is (Starking Delicious x 610-2). Sdlg. 610-2 has a complex pedigree being derived from a sibcross of Rome Beauty x Malus floribunda 821, crossed successively to Gold- en Delicious and McIntosh. Cross 1961, fruit 1966.

This apple is a cross of Starking and Purdue 610-2 bred and developed through a cooperative program of Purdue, Rutgers and Illinois Unive...Read Morersities. It was developed to be highly disease resistant, especially to apple scab, but is also moderately resistant to fireblight and mildew. It was introduced in 1972 and was named for the wife of F. D. Hovde, president of Purdue University. Fruit is medium sized and roundish-conical in shape, similar to Jonathan. Skin is smooth with a deep red blush. The cream-colored flesh is tender, juicy, and sweet. Ripens November.