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Fruit trees Hachiya Persimmon The Hachiya persimmon fruit is large and displays a deep orange-red color and is acorn-shaped. A hot summer is required to mature the fruit. It is sweet, flavorful, and astringent till soft-ripe. The mature fruit can be frozen and thawed to ripen. Persimmons offer an excellent source of fiber and contain lots of vitamin A and are a source for vitamin C. The tree can be used as an ornamental tree. In the fall the trees are extremely beautiful as the green leaves begin turning shades of yellow, orange and red.
Autumn Sweet The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. The fruit is aromatic and is outstanding for fresh eating. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit. 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.
Bing The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. 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 Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
Braeburn The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life. Its eating qualities make it adaptable for cooking as well as fresh use.
Chestnut Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It is a very productive annual bearer, and is loaded with white blooms in the bloom stage. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin 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. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.
Comice The Comice Pear produces a large pear with a very juicy, melting flesh. The Comice is not self-pollinating and requires a pollinator. The giant, juicy, rich-flavored pears are golden with a trace of red.
Cortland It is sweet with a hint of tartness. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy.
D Anjou The best flavor is realized when stored 1-2 months. The D'Anjou does not change color as it ripens.
Damson Damsons are mostly self-fertile and cross-pollinate with plums.
Early Italian The Early Italian prune has dark purple skin with yellow-greenish flesh that runs dark wine color when cooked.
Elberta The Elberta Peach tree has very large fruit.
Fantasia They require pruning and thinning for consistent, quality crops.
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