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Tioga
type: Dessert
identification: Large size, round with angular faces. Base colour is green fading to yellow in storage, blushed pale red. Russetting at the basin and cavity. The stem is short and stout, set in a deep and narrow cavity. The calyx is very small and closed, set in a shallow and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Firm and fine-grained. Sweet, mildly acidic, aromatic.
origins: A cross of Sutton with Northern Spy carried out in 1899 at the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station in Geneva, New York (U.S.A.). Introduced in 1915.
cultivation: Biennial
harvest: Early in the sixth period.
notes: There is also an apple by the name of Tioga All Summer which was apparently introduced and trademarked in 1920 by the Texas Nursery Company in Sherman, Texas (U.S.A.) It is billed as an eating apple with a two-month harvest span over the course of the summer. It is listed in Creighton Lee Calhoun's book "Old Southern Apples" published in 2011.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 6
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