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607.227.6147
 
 
 

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Dr. James N. Cummins
(Jim)
 
Office Phone: 
 865. 681.8423
 
Verizon Cell phone:
607.227.6172
after 9 p.m. or weekends 
 


 


 

  Pome Fruits
Apples
Main Crop | For the North | For the Southeast | Disease Resistant | Antiques and Exotics | Rootstocks | Special purpose varieties | Cider varieties | Pollenizers

SPECIAL PURPOSE -Apples 

PROCESSING  VARIETIES

TWENTY OUNCE PIPPIN | BEN DAVIS | NITTANY | YORK IMPERIAL

TWENTY OUNCE PIPPIN  A classic processing variety, ripening early in the season.  Very large fruit -- greenish, not attractive.  Productive.  Fire blight susceptible..   
 

BEN DAVIS   Another old processor -- there were a million Ben Davis trees in Dad's area back in the hills of Southern Illinois 60 years ago!!  Very dry, hard -- makes a brilliant yellow sauce. 
 

GRANNY SMITH  Australia's famous green apple.  An excellent processor.  Tree is somewhat compact. On Malling 9 and Malling 7 for 2008

NITTANY   A daughter of York Imperial -- much like her mother, but better is about every respect.  Nittany is slightly larger, not quite so lop-sided, a little less sensitive to fire blight, slower browning, better keeper.    Much less prone to internal corking, the major problem with York.  An excellent processor, comparable to York, and I think a really good eating apple.      SOLD OUT FOR 2008