Lady

Apple variety: Lady (France, 1628)

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Trees of Antiquity
Vintage Virginia Apples

Notes:
Fruit: size small, 40-80 mm; skin 30-80% orange blush, green ground color; shape oblate; flesh firm, nearly white; flavor slightly acid; eating quality fair; harvest season late October, 3 weeks after Delicious. Tree: very upright growth habit; productive; strongly biennial cropping. Oldest apple variety. Grown in the Gardens of Louis XIII, Orleans, 1628. Exquisitely beautiful little dessert apple, cream and crimson. Tender, crisp, very juicy, slightly perfumy. Used for Christmas wreaths. Nov. to Dec. Small tree. Bears heavily.

[Source: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1007901 (09 December 2006) ]