Which Varieties Are Best?
The best variety is the one you like the best. Almost any variety can be used for almost any application. For example, many people would never think of baking a pie with a McIntosh, while others won't use anything else.

New Varieties
Many growers are planting new disease-resistant varieties in an effort to reduce losses from disease and pests. Pristine, Redfree and William's Pride in particular are excellent apples.

Comparing Popular Varieties
Browse through our variety selection guide page by page, or select a specific page from the list below.

Page 1 Akane through Ben Davis Page 2 Black Gilliflower through Cortland Page 3 Cox Orange Pippin through Franklin Page 4 Fuji through Grimes Golden Page 5 Haralson through Jersey Mac

Page 6 Jonagold through Lady Page 7 Lodi through Newtown Pippin Page 8 Northern Spy through Roxbury Russet Page 9 Snow through Twenty Ounce Pippin Page 10 Wagener through York Imperial

After Apple Picking My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples; I am drowsing off. I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the water-trough, And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break. But I was well Upon my way to sleep before it fell, And I could tell What form my dreaming was about to take. Magnified apples appear and reappear, Stem end and blossom end, And every fleck of russet showing clear.

— Robert Frost...from “After Apple Picking”, ca. 1914