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Fruit trees
Cameo The Cameo apple produces raves from growers and consumers. The fruits have a red stripe over a yellow-light green undercolor. The Cameo fruit is medium to large and uniform in size. The flavor has been judged to be faintly sweet/tart with excellent eating quality. This variety is widely heralded as one of the most flavorful, crispy, and juicy apples anywhere. The Cameo matures one week before Fuji and has a long harvest and storage window.
Autumn Sweet The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit. They do require bees to help pollinate.
Bing The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
Braeburn The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life. Its eating qualities make it adaptable for cooking as well as fresh use.
Chestnut The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for "rabbit", is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.
Comice The giant, juicy, rich-flavored pears are golden with a trace of red. It is sometimes referred to as the "connoisseur’s" pear.
Cortland It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh. It is an heavy annual bearer.
D Anjou The D'Anjo Pear is a large pear. The D'Anjou does not change color as it ripens.
Damson A hardy, tree, largely untroubled by pests and diseases.
Early Italian The Early Italian prune has dark purple skin with yellow-greenish flesh that runs dark wine color when cooked.
Elberta It is the best known yellow canning peach.
Fantasia It is high-scoring in taste tests.
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