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Summer Rose
type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert
synonyms: French Reinette, Glass Apple (this is also a synonym for Snell's Glass Apple ), Harvest Apple, Lippincott, Lippencott’s Early, Lippincot’s Early, Lodge’s Early, Symm's Harvest, Wolman’s Harvest, Woolman’s Early, Woolman’s Harvest, Woolman’s Striped Harvest.
identification: Small to medium in size, round. The skin is smooth and waxy. The background colour is yellow, heavily marked with broken red stripes that merge together to form a wash on the sun exposed face. The calyx is medium size and open, set in a moderately shallow, moderately deep basin. The stem is short and somewhat stout, set in a medium deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The white flesh is fine-grained, tender, crisp and juicy. Sprightly and very sweet.
uses: Used as a cooking apple when still slightly unripe, but it becomes an excellent dessert apple as it ripens. Also used for cider making.
origins: Originated in New Jersey (U.S.A.) in the late 1700. Listed by Bernard M'Mahon in the "American Gardener's Calendar" in 1806 as Woolman's Harvest. Described by William Coxe in "A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees and the Management of Orchards and Cider" (published 1817) with the comment "This is an apple of singular beauty and excellence, both for eating and stewing..." He notes that the fruit is marketed under the name of Harvest apple.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Precocious. Apples grow in clusters. Produces fairly heavy crops.
cold storage: Does not keep well
harvest: Over the span of several weeks starting in the middle of the third period. For culinary use, the fruit should be picked two to three weeks before that.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 3
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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