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Campfield Apple Scionwood (Spring 2025)


A traditional American cider apple. Also known as Newark Sweeting, Canfield.

Campfield is a very large and vigorous tree with an upright-spreading habit and average resistance to major diseases. It is cold hardy and healthy but prone to overbearing and biennialism. This variety should be well pruned and thinned. Campfield is a cider apple; it is not suitable for fresh eating.

The medium-to-large fruit ripens late, and it has a yellow skin that is blushed and striped red and dotted with white or russet lenticels. The flesh is sweet, white, and firm, and it yields a bittersweet juice, which was traditionally blended with Harrison, sometimes Graniwinkle, or used for a single-variety cider. The fruit stores well. (From WSU: Tannin (percent tannic acid): 0.17; Acid (percent malic acid): 0.23; pH: 4.38; SG: 1.055; oBrix 12.8.)

Campfield was probably named after a family who lived in Eastern New Jersey, which is the tree's place of origin. Along with Harrison and Graniwinkle, Campfield was one of the apples central to Newark cider production before prohibition.

Volume Pricing

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

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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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Campfield is a very large and vigorous tree with an upright-spreading habit and average resistance to major diseases. It is cold hardy and healthy but prone to overbearing and biennialism. This variety should be well pruned and thinned. Campfield is a cider apple; it is not suitable for fresh eating.

The medium-to-large fruit ripens late, and it has a yellow skin that is blushed and striped red and dotted with white or russet lenticels. The flesh is sweet, white, and firm, and it yields a bittersweet juice, which was traditionally blended with Harrison, sometimes Graniwinkle, or used for a single-variety cider. The fruit stores well. (From WSU: Tannin (percent tannic acid): 0.17; Acid (percent malic acid): 0.23; pH: 4.38; SG: 1.055; oBrix 12.8.)

Campfield was probably named after a family who lived in Eastern New Jersey, which is the tree's place of origin. Along with Harrison and Graniwinkle, Campfield was one of the apples central to Newark cider production before prohibition.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Heirloom, Cider, Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: cider
Cider classification: bittersweet
Storage duration: one to three months (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: off-white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: unknown
Origin: New Jersey
Introduced in: 1800s
Introduced by:

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 4 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Nov 10 (approximate, in New York State) + 56 days after McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

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

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 3
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

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