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Striped July
type: Dessert
synonyms: July, Virginia June, Striped June (this is also a synonym for Bevan’s Favorite and Margaret ).
summary: A well-flavoured Appalachian early eating apple, but has likely disappeared by the mid-1900s.
identification: Medium tending to large. The base colour is yellow over which is a dense pattern of red stripes.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained and firm. Sweet-tart. Rated as being "very good" in by W.H. Ragan's "Nomenclature of the Apple" (published 1905).
origins: Listed in William Smith's 1893 nursery catalogue in Franklin, Tennessee (U.S.A.), as having originated in nearby Wilson County. The late Lee Calhoun stated that "its origin was unknown even in 1874" in his "Old Southern Apples" (revised edition 2010) and listed it as an extinct southern apple.
cold storage: Does not keep well.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the second period.
notes: Striped July was also called July Stripe and the name was applied to a number of early bearing apples from the United States, many of them highly localized. This includes a large apple that originated in Wilkes County of North Carolina as well as a medium sized apple from adjacent Iredell County, also in North Carolina.
ploidism: Self sterile.
harvest period: 2
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