The Jonathan apple is a medium-sized sweet
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An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ances ...
, with a touch of acid[ and a tough but smooth skin. It is closely related to the Esopus Spitzenburg apple, good for eating fresh and for cooking.]
History
There are two alternative theories about the origin of the Jonathan apple.
The first is that it was grown by Rachel Negus Higley. Mrs. Higley gathered seeds from the local cider mill in Connecticut before the family made their journey to the wilds of Ohio in 1796 where she planted them. She continued to carefully cultivate her orchard to maturity and named the resulting variety after a young local boy that frequented her orchard: Jonathan Lash.
The other, and more accepted, theory is that it originated from an Esopus Spitzenburg seedling in 1826 from the farm of Philip Rick(s) in Woodstock
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, Ulster County, New York
Ulster County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster.
History
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. Although it may have originally been called the "Ricks" apple, it was soon renamed by Judge Buel, President of Albany Horticultural Society, after Jonathan Zander, who discovered the apple and brought it to Buel's attention.[
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Descendants
*Jonagold
Jonagold is a cultivar of apple which was developed in 1953 in New York State Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a cross between the crisp Golden Delicious and the blush-crimson ...
—a cross between Jonathan and Golden Delicious apples
*Jonamac—a cross between Jonathan and McIntosh apples
*Rubinstar
* Idared
*Melrose Melrose may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
* Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery
** Melrose RFC, rugby club
Australia
* Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnet ...
*Undine
*Akane
Akane (, ) is the Japanese word for 'deep red' (, ''Akane'', '' Rubia cordifolia'') and is associated with red (from the red dye made from its roots) and brilliant red. ''Akane'' (written in a variety of forms) is both a female Japanese giv ...
* Querina Florina (scab resistant)
Disease susceptibility
*Scab
Scab may refer to:
Biology
* Scab, a hard coating on the skin formed during the wound healing reconstruction phase
* scAb, single-chain antibody fragment
Infections and infestations
* Apple scab, an apple tree (genus ''Malus'') fungal disease c ...
: high[Dr. Stephen Miller of the USDA Fruit Research Lab in Kearneysville, West Virginia.]
* Powdery mildew: high
* Cedar apple rust: high
* Fire blight: high
References
Cooking apples
American apples
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