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Deacon Jones
type: Culinary, Dessert
identification: Medium size tending to large, conic to long conic. The base colour is green over which is a deep, matte red wash that covers half to almost all of the apple. Abundant russet lenticels. The skin is tough
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet, slightly tangy with melon flavours.
origins: According to S.A. Beach, author of "The Apples of New York" (published 1903), the Deacon Jones originated in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) as a chance seedling in the late 1800s and was introduced by J.S. Ford of Pittsford, New York. "The form of the fruit and the character of the core indicated that this variety may be a seedling of the Yellow Bellflower," Beach suggested.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright tree. Precocious. Productive with annual crops.
progeny: Sweet Delicious
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
harvest: Late in the fifth period. The fruit hangs well at harvest.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
hardiness: 4
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