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Duchess Of Oldenburg Apple Scionwood (Spring 2024)


An extremely cold-hardy, disease-resistant culinary apple from Russia. Also known as Oldenburg, Oldenburgh, Borowitsky, Baroveski, Barowiski, Charlamowsky.

Very hardy, precocious, and productive, the mature Duchess is a roundish, mid-sized tree that is quite easy to grow. It is resistant to all major apple diseases with the exception of fireblight. As an antique variety, it does tend to biennialism and will need to be thinned diligently to maintain annual bearing.

Primarily a culinary apple, Duchess has red stripes and blush over a greenish yellow background, and it is speckled with russet lenticels. The flesh is tinged yellow, fine grained, firm, and aromatic. The flavor is too acidic to make it an attractive dessert apple, but it is an outstanding cooking apple. Duchess does not store well, but it can be picked before it is fully ripe and it has a long harvest season that requires several pickings and makes it a great apple for the home grower.

Duchess was among the first four Russian apples to arrive in America, imported from London by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1835. The other three were Alexander, Tetovsy, and Red Astrachan.

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Quantity Duchess Of Oldenburg Apple Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $7.00
6-10 $6.00
11-99 $5.00
100+ $4.00

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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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Very hardy, precocious, and productive, the mature Duchess is a roundish, mid-sized tree that is quite easy to grow. It is resistant to all major apple diseases with the exception of fireblight. As an antique variety, it does tend to biennialism and will need to be thinned diligently to maintain annual bearing.

Primarily a culinary apple, Duchess has red stripes and blush over a greenish yellow background, and it is speckled with russet lenticels. The flesh is tinged yellow, fine grained, firm, and aromatic. The flavor is too acidic to make it an attractive dessert apple, but it is an outstanding cooking apple. Duchess does not store well, but it can be picked before it is fully ripe and it has a long harvest season that requires several pickings and makes it a great apple for the home grower.

Duchess was among the first four Russian apples to arrive in America, imported from London by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1835. The other three were Alexander, Tetovsy, and Red Astrachan.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Heirloom, Disease-Resistant, Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating, baking, jelly, sauce
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: yellow

Fruit Origins

Parentage: unknown
Origin: Russia
Introduced in: 1835
Introduced by:

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 3 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Aug 18 (approximate, in New York State) 28 days before McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

Apple Scab: Resistant
Cedar-Apple Rust: Resistant
Fireblight: Susceptible
Powdery Mildew: Resistant

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 2
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

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