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Fruit trees
Gourmet Dwarf The 'Gourmet' is pollen sterile, which means that it cannot be used to pollinate a second pear tree. The Gourmet Dwarf produces medium sized fruit that is greenish yellow to yellow in color. The Gourmet trees are upright and medium in size. It has a thick but tender skin. It is a perfect pear to serve for dessert. The flesh is yellowish, crisp juicy and very sweet.
Autumn Sweet The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. They do require bees to help pollinate. Bartlett Pears do not ripen properly on the tree, so growers pick the fruit when it is mature but green. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit.
Bing The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black.
Braeburn The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life.
Chestnut It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It usually has a partially russeted skin and hangs well on the tree. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for "rabbit", is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry.
Comice It is sometimes referred to as the "connoisseur’s" pear. The giant, juicy, rich-flavored pears are golden with a trace of red.
Cortland The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy. It is an heavy annual bearer.
D Anjou The best flavor is realized when stored 1-2 months. The flesh is white with abundant juice and a sweet brisk flavor.
Damson The dark purple skin covers the golden yellow flesh.
Early Italian It is used as fresh, dried or canned prunes.
Elberta And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9.
Fantasia The Fantasia Nectarine is a popular, large, yellow, freestone nectarine.
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