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Primate
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Belle Rose, Early Baldwin, Early Tart Harvest, Harvest, Highland Pippin, Jenkin’s Summer Pippin, July Apple, North American Best, Powers, Primates, Rough and Ready, Ryerson, Scott, Sour Harvest, Zour Bough
summary: An excellent dessert apple, ripening toward the end of summer and produces fresh fruit for as much as six weeks. Cuttings and two-year old whips are available from select nurseries in North America.
identification: Medium size tending to large, round to round conic, often with pronounced angular and ribbed faces. The skin is thin and green maturing to yellow, sometimes with a red blush on the sun exposed face. Light-coloured, indistinct lenticels. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a somewhat deep and open basin. The stem is stout and varies from short to medium length, set in a deep, wide cavity. Bruises easily.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, tender. Juicy, sweet, slightly tart, aromatic.
uses: An excellent early baking and cooking apple.
origins: Grown from unidentified apple seeds planted about 1840 on the farm of Calvin D. Bingham of Camillus, Onondaga County, New York (U.S.A.)
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright-spreading tree. Biennial.
cold storage: Keeps less than a month.
harvest: Early in the third period and the complete harvest occurs over a span of four weeks.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 4
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