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Joyce
type: Dessert, Eating
synonyms: This is not the same apple as Joyce Allardice .
identification: Medium size, round tending to oblate. Ribbed on the sides extending to the crown. The skin is yellow over which is a maroon flush marked with heavy red stripes which can cover almost all of the apple. Yellowish lenticels are sparsely scattered over the surface. The stem is medium length and stout, set in a moderately deep and open cavity. The calyx is small and closed to partly open, set in a shallow and narrow basin which is surrounded by an irregularly knobbed crown.
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft, tender and coarse-grained. Juicy, sweet with mild acidity and hints of raspberries.
uses: A refreshing eating apple.
origins: Developed at the Federal Agriculture Research Station, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1898 by crossing McIntosh with Lowland Raspberry . Released in 1924.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Produces fruit on spurs and tends to bear every other year.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months in cold storage.
harvest: Ripens in the middle of the fourth period with several pickings over a three-week span.
notes: The first few harvests on young trees tend consist of large and irregularly shaped apples.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 5
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 3
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