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Fall Orange
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie
synonyms: Glass, Glass Orange, Holden, Holden Pippin, Hogpen, Jones' Pippin, Long Island Orange, New York Bellflower, Orange, Speckled, Red Cheek, Westbrook, White Newell
summary: Dating back to the 1700s, this apple is favoured for making apple pies when picked slightly under-ripe or allowed to ripen fully for its excellent flavours and texture when eaten out of hand.
identification: Medium to large apple, round-conic, often irregularly shaped. Background colour is green maturing to yellow over which can be a pink or brownish blush, often with russet patches. Russet lenticels are scattered over the face of the apple. The stem is medium length set in a deep and narrow, russetted cavity. The calyx is partly open and large, set in a deep and narrow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained. Tender, crisp and juicy. Very aromatic.
origins: Discovered growing as a chance seedling near the hog pen of Deacon Allen of Holden, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), some time before 1770. In 1825 it was taken to western New York where it became known as Fall Orange.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading. Precocious. Biennial, producing heavy crops in alternating years. Makes a good market or farm gate apple but it is too tender to be shipped in a commercial operation.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: Late in the third period and into the fourth.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 3
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