Apple Varieties

Applesort icon Description/Notes
Astrachan

Eating
Mild
Summer
Baldwin

Originated 1340 Wilmington, MA
Tart, Hard, Eating, Cooking
Burgundy

Cooking, Tart, Sauce
Cortland

Eating, Cooking, Salad (flesh stays white)
Empire

Eating, Tart, Hard
English Russett

Tart and Chewy
Fall Pippin

Great pie apple
Gilliflower

Eating, Mild flavor
Golden Delicious

Excellent Eating, Cooking in cakes, cooking

Golden Russett

From England
Complex flavor; Chewy
Gravenstein

Tart, Crisp summer, Good first pie apple
Idared

Crisp apple for pies and eating.
Jerseymac
Jonathan

Unique flavor
Lansing Seedling

Crisp, Juicy, Eating apple
Macoun

Excellent for eating
McIntosh

For eating and sauces
Mutsu

Excellent for eating and pies
Northern Spy

Salisbury circa 1800

Tart, Hard, for Eating or Cooking
Opalescent

Ohio 1899
Natural waxy skin, Eating, Baked apple
Pound Pippin

Eating, Pie
R.I. Greening

1700's
Very tart & hard
Good for Cooking & Pies
Red Delicious

Great for eating!
Rome

Late-season apple
Good for pies and baked apples.
Roxbury Russett

Roxbury, MA - Early 1600s
Tart & Chewy
Seek-No-Further

Westfield, MA
Good eating apple
Sheepnose

Good eating apple dating back to the early 1700s
Snow

Very white flesh
Good for eating
Strawberry

Early-season apple
Good for eating
Striped Pippin

Tart, for Pies and Sauces
Winesap

Tart and hard
Late-season apple
Great keeper
Wolf River

Good for baked apples