Kinnaird’s Choice

Good Apple Info Snapshot:

Another winner from Tennessee of old.

Good Apple Info Difficulty Rating:

Easy.

Tree Habit:

Vigorous, upright and bushy. It bears young, yielding moderate crops with some tendency to biennial production. Watercores when overripe on the tree.

Apple Color:

Yellow, and mottled with red, deepening to a purple-red, and covered with small, whitish dots.

Size:

Medium to large. Thick, tough and smooth skin.

Flavor:

subacid – The white flesh is sometimes tinged yellow, and is crisp, coarse-textured, aromatic.

Bloom:

End main season

Ripe:

September

History:

Originated on the farm of Michael Kinnaird in Franklin County, Tennessee, and was noted by Downing in 1872. The parentage is unknown, but it may be a cross of Winesap and Limbertwig. There was some small, commercial production of it in Central Virginia until about 1950, and storage records from Lynchburg, Virginia, indicate it brought high prices.

Storage:

Good, 4 months.

Uses:

Fresh eating, cider.