Apple 'Dudley Winter'

from fedco trees catalog:

Dudley Winter Apple Fall. (Duchess x Hyslop crab) Castle Hill, ME, about 1877. Also called Dud...Read Moreley and North Star. Medium-sized slightly flattened fruit is buttery yellow, overspread with red stripes and splashes. Firm but tender, juicy aromatic subacid flesh for fresh eating and cooking. In northern areas—where it reaches its prime—it also keeps into winter. Small vigorous spreading drooping tree. The story is that orchardist John Wesley Dudley’s daughter Grace planted seeds from a Duchess tree pollinated by a Hyslop crab. The resulting seedling became the most widely planted new variety in the North at the turn of the previous century. Probably still the most well-known Maine apple outside the state. JW left Castle Hill for Klickitat County in south central Washington a few years later to help found a fledgling apple industry. Ouch! And it’s almost certainly no coincidence that the Perham Fruit Company was founded in Yakima shortly thereafter. Our Dudley scionwood comes from a small abandoned orchard just north of Castle Hill—near Perham. Somewhat scab susceptible, more so than Duchess. Extremely hardy. Natural semi-dwarf. Blooms early-midseason. Z3-6