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Black Amish
type: Eating
identification: Medium tending to large size. Round, sometimes round-conic. Background colour is pale yellow which is entirely washed with red over which are stripes of deeper red. Abundantly marked with light-coloured russetted lenticels, those on the sun-exposed side often have russet centres. Tough skinned. The stem is short and moderately stout, set in a deep and narrow, russetted cavity. The calyx is small, partly open and set in a wide and moderately deep basin.
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp and fine-grained. Juicy and sweet-tart.
uses: A fresh eating apple. Makes a delicious apple butter and baked apples.
origins: Thought to have originated in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) in the late 1800s, but details are not known.
cultivation: Highly vigorous. Bears heavy crops annually.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: Ready for harvest toward the end of the fourth period and into the beginning of the fifth.
notes: Creighton Lee Calhoun, the author of "Old Southern Apples," maintains it is very similar to Hoover in appearance and may be identical to it.
The apple could well have disappeared if it hadn't been for the tireless efforts of John Creech of Kentucky to find, propagate and promote it.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
flowers: Large, white with pink stains.
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