What Kind of Apple is This?

[thistlebloom]

My dad was supposed to go there, but there was an outbreak of something, scarlet fever maybe? So the recruits just rode the train right on past.

 

[Nyboy]

On the way to work I pass the city lot where the large trucks are kept. There is a tall chain link fence that surrounds the lot. Up against fence are 3 apple trees, in fall ground is covered in large apples that just rot there. I always thought apple trees where a strange choice for city tree. Now I am wondering if same thing happened like @thistlebloom trees. Crab apple planted apple root stock took over.

 

[thistlebloom]

I always thought apple trees where a strange choice for city tree. Now I am wondering if same thing happened like @thistlebloom trees. Crab apple planted apple root stock took over.

Those trees are a neighborhood favorite now. They had a light crop this year, but enough for a few families to pick for pies and fresh eating. The smallest tree that grows next to the road produced for the first time this year. A small to medium sized green apple that has a wonderful taste.

 

[aftermidnight]

I asked how it tasted and he said skin was tough and flavor was bland.

Mary

How about size is it a large apple?

Another guess, Honeycrisp

 

[Nyboy]

Those trees are a neighborhood favorite now. They had a light crop this year, but enough for a few families to pick for pies and fresh eating. The smallest tree that grows next to the road produced for the first time this year. A small to medium sized green apple that has a wonderful taste.

What blows me away is there no spray. Without multi spraying I zero chance at edible apple

 

[Pulsegleaner]

On the way to work I pass the city lot where the large trucks are kept. There is a tall chain link fence that surrounds the lot. Up against fence are 3 apple trees, in fall ground is covered in large apples that just rot there. I always thought apple trees where a strange choice for city tree. Now I am wondering if same thing happened like @thistlebloom trees. Crab apple planted apple root stock took over.

Well, you have to remember that this is the Hudson Valley we are talking about; it's been built over and over again for 400+ years, and bits and pieces have an odd way of hanging around. It's the same as the stone walls you find if you walk the woods around here; presumably they mark boundaries to farms and home gone centuries ago. So there are probably a LOT of places around here with trees that are descendants of ones planted ages ago. Like that one I mentioned last year in the parking lot (assuming that was ever an a "spitter" cider apple, as opposed to a crab with notably large fruit and a clear M. domestica ancestry.)

 

[Nyboy]

The old stonewalls blow me away . Deep in middle of woods. Have you ever been to the Silver Lake Preserve ? https://www.trails.com/us/ny/north-white-plains/silver-lake-preserve-trail right across street from my kennel

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Nother apple tree seen.

Pair of them Naunuet shopping center. Dark reddish apples. Will taste later.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Update
Finally got around to tasting them (Good Keepers!)

One was sort of so so, but the other wasn't bad (sort of like a Granny Smith). Saved the two fertile pips (will stick in a pot and put in the garage so vernalize without fear of critter.

 

[Nyboy]

wow took a whole month to eat