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Holiday Apple Scionwood (Spring 2026)


An excellent dessert apple that's great for winter baking.

A vigorous, upright tree that is cold hardy and easy to grow. We expect that it is susceptible to apple scab, as are both its parents. 

Ripening about a month after McIntosh, Holiday is a deep red apple with conspicuous lenticels. A cross of Macoun and Jonathan, it has the attractive white flesh of Macoun along with the rich, sweet, and spiced flavor of Jonanthan. This apple will store well through December and is great for fresh eating and baking. 

Holiday was bred by Dr. Freeman S. Howlett, a researcher at the Ohio Stae University, who was also responsible for Melrose, Franklin, Ruby, and Holly. This cross of Macoun and Jonathan was made in 1940, tested as Ohio 6187, and released in 1965.

Volume Pricing

Premiums are included in the following prices if applicable. These prices are for regular scion. Add $1 for clean scion.

Quantity Holiday Apple Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $8.00
6-10 $7.00
11-99 $6.00
100+ $5.00

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$12.00 ea.

This is the full retail price for orders of 1 scion. You can get these scion for as low as $5.00 each – see Volume Pricing above. More about Pricing & Grading.

12 in stock

This product is an unrooted plant cutting meant for grafting onto rootstock (sold separately) or onto other existing trees.

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Clean vs. Regular

Our clean scion is harvested from trees grown on G.16, which is extremely sensitive to viruses. These trees would not have survived if the scion contained viruses. Our clean wood has not been lab tested. Regular = may contain one of the common latent viruses; this is not usually a problem and can be used with most rootstocks.

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A vigorous, upright tree that is cold hardy and easy to grow. We expect that it is susceptible to apple scab, as are both its parents. 

Ripening about a month after McIntosh, Holiday is a deep red apple with conspicuous lenticels. A cross of Macoun and Jonathan, it has the attractive white flesh of Macoun along with the rich, sweet, and spiced flavor of Jonanthan. This apple will store well through December and is great for fresh eating and baking. 

Holiday was bred by Dr. Freeman S. Howlett, a researcher at the Ohio Stae University, who was also responsible for Melrose, Franklin, Ruby, and Holly. This cross of Macoun and Jonathan was made in 1940, tested as Ohio 6187, and released in 1965.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Dessert

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating, cider, baking
Cider classification: sweet
Storage duration: three plus months (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: Jonathan x Macoun
Origin: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, OH
Introduced in: 1964
Introduced by: Dr. Freeman S. Howlett

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 4 - 7
Chill hours: 800
Ripening date: Oct 15 (approximate, in New York State) + 30 days after McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

glossary

Apple Scab: Susceptible

Pollination

Pollination Factors

glossary

Bloom group: 4
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Holiday Apple. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.

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