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Johnson Keeper
type: Dessert
identification: Medium tending to large. Round to round-flattened. Completely washed carmine which is marked with scattered, light-coloured lenticels. The stem is short and clubbed, set deep in a narrow, russetted cavity.
characteristics: Crisp and tart
origins: According to Creighton Lee Calhoun in his "Old Southern Apples," the Johnson Keeper was rediscovered in 2013 by heritage apple hunter Tom Brown 2013 in the northern Piedmont region of Wilkes County, North Carolina (U.S.A.).
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fifth period.
notes: Thought to be the same apple as Johnson's Red Winter Johnson Red Winter
ploidism: Self sterile.
harvest period: 5
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