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Nutting
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Nutting Bumpus
identification: Medium tending to large, round to round-conic. The base colour is a pale yellow washed light red and marked with a fine pattern of darker red stripes on the sun exposed sides. The stem is long and slender, rising well beyond the moderately deep and narrow cavity. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a shallow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine grained and soft. Juicy with a refreshing sweet-tart balance, but can be highly acidic in cooler growing areas. Tends to be much like its Duchess of Oldenburg parent, though somewhat sweeter.
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Duchess of Oldenburg discovered growing in Perham, Aroostook County, Maine (U.S.A.) in the 1800s. It was propagated and introduced in by James Nutting, a politician, printer and orchard owner who was interested in developing cold-hardy apples for this northeastern state.
cultivation: Small and weakly vigorous, upright spreading.
cold storage: Keeps for barely one month.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fourth period.
ploidism: Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 3
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