summary: Weighing as much as a 400-page hardcover book, this apple shines as a cooking apple. It is also used for hardy root stock and can be grown from seeds.

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, fine grained and juicy. Sweet and nutty when fully ripened. Fruit is slow to turn brown once cut open.

summary: Though grown primarily for ornamental purposes, this crabapple produces sweet-tart, bright red fruit about the size of a acorn that is favoured for jellies and ...

characteristics: The flesh is yellow and crisp. Juicy, sweet-sharp, slightly bitter and with flavours of pineapples and strawberries. The skin colour tends to stain into the ...

characteristics: Tender, fine grained and juicy.

characteristics: Flesh is yellowish with a red stain around the core. Crisp and juicy. Tart.

summary: An excellent American cooking apple discovered as a chance seedling in the early 1800s.

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, medium-grained, firm and tender. Juicy, very sweet and slightly tart. Mild flavour.

summary: A flowering ornamental crabapple that produces glossy red, edible fruit.

summary: Tolerates cold zone 5.

characteristics: The flesh is greenish and very firm. Juicy, slightly tart and astringent. Keeps about a month in cold storage.