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The Elberta Peach tree has very large fruit. It is the best known yellow canning peach. The skin is red blushed over a deep golden yellow color. This is a high quality eating and canning peach. Elberta peaches has the smallest pit-to-fruit ratio of any peach tree we offer. It’s as sweet a peach as you could imagine that you could have on the table. Along with the delicious fruit, it’s a beautiful tree. In the spring, rose-red blossoms will fill the air with fragrance. And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9. In our opinion no finer or lovelier peach tree exists anywhere.

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The Methley Plum Tree produces juicy, sweet, red flesh with a mild flavor. This early variety has reddish-purple skin and blood red flesh. The Methley plum tree is very attractive in appearance and vigorous. The Methley is self-fruitful so no pollinator is needed. This early variety has red-purple skin and soft, juicy, blood-red flesh. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and birds and the flowers are fragrant. It is drought-tolerant and is a regular bearer.

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The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for “rabbit”, is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. They are great for snacking, and so big, one cherry is a mouthful! The skin is bright in appearance and it is split resistant due to flexible skin. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.

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The Apple – Pink Pearl, Malus domestica ‘Pink Pearl’, is an apple that is generally medium sized, with a conical shape. Pink Pearl has a translucent, yellow-green skin, and a crisp, juicy flesh with tart to sweet-tart taste. This apple has a secret: inside, it is positively vampy, with startling bright pink, sweet-tart flesh. Even the blooms are bright pink! The fruit is crisp and tastes of raspberries and lemon custard. Pink Pearl apples ripen in late August to mid-September. It is a wonderful table apple and makes a beautiful pink applesauce.

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Connell Red Apple, Malus ‘Connell Red’, is a red blush mutation of Fireside apple. Similar to Fireside except that it has more intense red color. It is hardy, a heavy bearer, and excellent for eating or cooking with a distinctive flavor. The Connell fruit keeps well until April or May. It is an unsuitable pollinator for Fireside. The Connell Red Apple is a magnificent deep red, stripe-free, solid blush. It has a banana essence, very sweet, and mellow. This apple is a large fruit with sweet flavor and fine-grained flesh. Connell Red is good for fresh eating, salads, and baked apples. The tree is vigorous, weeping, and matures in late October. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

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The Red Duchess Apple, Malus ‘Red Duchess’, is a red selection of ‘Duchess of Oldenburg’ (Originating from Russia.) This is an old favorite that is very hardy, and produces medium to large, greenish yellow apples with bright red striping and splashes. It

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The Polly peach also know as the Polly White peach is one of the most winter hardy peach varieties. The tree was developed in Iowa and is hardy to ‘20 degrees Fahrenheit. This peach has all the eating characteristics you are seeking, sweet, medium-sized and white fleshed. It sports a crimson-blushed white skin.

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The Flavor Delight Aprium, is a cross of a apricot and a plum tree. The Flavor Delight is 3/4 Apricot and 1/4 Plum with a very sweet taste. The flesh of the fruit is yellow and firm like an apricot but contains the taste of both fruits. This fruit of this self-fertile tree ripens in Late June and with proper pruning can be maintained around 10 feet tall. Even though the Flavor Delight is self-fruitful, larger fruit will be achieved by pollinating with any other apricot tree.

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The Red Prairie Spy Apple, Malus ‘Red Prairie Spy’, is a red selection of Prairie Spy that has better fruit adherence on the tree at maturity. This tart apple is best for baking, very good for pies, and great for fresh eating. Red Prairie Spy is a long-term storage apple and very productive. It displays white flowers in the spring with deep green foilage. It needs another apple variety for pollination. The Red Prairie Spy was introduced by the University of Minnesota 1940. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

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