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Catline
type: Cider, Dessert
synonyms: Catlin, Gregson, Grickson, Grixon
summary: Stemming from the northeastern U.S.A. some time around the late 1700s, this small, bright red apple is primarily considered a fresh eating variety, but it was also used for blended cider. Few nurseries and fewer fruit stores carry it these days.
identification: Medium size tending to small, Round flattened to round-conic, often lopsided. The skin is smooth, the base colour is yellow, flushed bright red and marked with red striping, pronounced on the sun-exposed face. Abundant dark lenticels. The stem is medium long or shorter, stout and set in a medium deep cavity. The calyx is partly open and medium size, set in a rather narrow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender. Juicy and moderately sweet when ripened fully.
origins: First listed as Catline or Gregson by William Coxe in 1817 in his "A view of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees." James Thatcher, in his "The American Orchardist" (published 1822), lists it as having originated in northeastern United States -- Delaware, to be exact -- and deems it a cider apple which is also good for fresh eating. Andrew Downing in the 1853 edition of "The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America" also places the origin of this apple in the northeastern United States, but suggests that it came from the state of Maryland rather than Delaware.
cultivation: Moderately to weakly vigorous, upright growth. Starts to bear fruit at six years on its own roots.
harvest: In the latter half of fifth period.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 10
harvest period: 5
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