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LMR Rutherford Gardens
Fruit Catalog
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APPLES | APRICOTS | CHERRIES | FIGS | MULLBERRIES | NECTARINES PEACHES | PEARS | PLUMS | PLUOTS | PRUNES |
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Ashmeads Kernel | Widely regarded as one of the all-time best-flavored apples. Small to medium-sized fruit; variable shape, often lop-sided. Greenish to golden brown russet skin with reddish highlights. Creamy yellow flesh is aromatic, crisp and sweet. Fruit picked early is somewhat sharp and acidic, but mellows after a few weeks off the tree. Keeps 3-4 months. Used for dessert, cider and sauce. From England, discovered in the early 1700s. |
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Jonagold | Superb flavor - connoisseurs' choice. A cross of Jonathan and Golden Delicious. Yellow with red-orange blush. Crisp, juicy, subacid, all-purpose. |
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Calville Blanc | Classic French dessert apple, also excellent for cooking and cider. "The best pie and sauce apple." Flattened, round shape with prominent, uneven ribs near the base. Usually harvested green, turning yellow and reaching peak flavor a month or so after picking. Harvest in late mid-season, just after Jonagold. Origin unknown; planted in France in the early 1600s. |
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Fuji | Recent introduction from Japan that quickly became California's favorite apple. Sweet, very crisp and flavorful, excellent keeper. Dull reddish-orange skin, sometimes russeted. Ripe mid-September. |
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Golden Delicious |
Long-time favorite for its sweetness and flavor. Reliable producer, adapted to many climates. Pollenizer for RedDelicious. Mid-season harvest (September in Central Calif.).continually until early winter. |
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Gravenstein | Famous for sauce and baking, also used fresh. Crisp, juicy, flavorful, tart. Early bloom, early harvest. |
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Pink Pearl | Unusual pink-fleshed, highly aromatic fruit. Medium size, cream and pale green skin, sometimes blushed red. Tart to sweet-tart, depending on time of picking. Early fall harvest. Good keeper. Makes colorful, tasty applesauce. |
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Autumn Glo | Late season apricot with tremendous flavor. Ripens in the first two weeks of August. Fruit is medium sized with good color. One of the highest-scoring apricot varieties at Dave Wilson Nursery fruit tastings. |
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Blenheim | Blenheim apricots are the most delicious apricots of all. All-purpose freestone, sweet, aromatic, flavorful. Long-time No.1 apricot in California. They are hard to find fresh because of their delicate nature so they are usually dried to preserve their distinctive sweet-tart flavor and intense color. Late June harvest. |
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Moorpark | Long-time favorite of apricot fanciers for its exceptionally rich flavor and aroma. Reliable producer. Used fresh and for canning. |
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Bing | The heart-shaped cherries. Popular with kids of all ages. Firm, meaty fruit has distinctively rich flavor and deep crimson color. Ripens in June and July. |
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Craig's Crimson | Self-fruitful, natural semi-dwarf, perhaps the finest sweet cherry: dark red to nearly black, medium to large size, wonderful spicy flavor, very firm texture. |
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Montmorency | The classic pie cherry tree. It produces an abundance of bright red cherries. |
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Black Mission | Our favorite. Purplish-black skin, strawberry- colored flesh, rich flavor. Heavy bearing, long-lived, large tree. The tree at Rutherford Gardens is at least 80 years old and provides shade for picnicking visitors. |
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Kadota | Large, light greenish-yellow 'white' skin, amber flesh. Very sweet fruit needs hot weather to ripen. Fresh/dry/can. |
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Persian Black | Large black fruit with sweet, tasty flesh. The fruit resembles blackberries and is very sweet when fully ripe. Unripe fruit is quite tart. Excellent fresh, dried, cooked, or for preserves. Ripens summer. |
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Arctic Star | Early-season, super sweet, white fleshed nectarine. Low in acid, no tartness. Rave reviews in trial tastings. Semi-freestone with beautiful dark red skin. Harvest approximately June 10th to 30th. |
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Arctic Rose | Delicious, super-sweet, white nectarine. Very high-scoring in taste tests. Rich flavor and nice crunchy texture when firm ripe-extremely sweet when soft ripe. Harvest mid to late July |
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Snow Queen | Sweet, juicy, early season white freestone. Late June harvest. |
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Independence | Bright red skin, firm yellow freestone. Rich flavor, tangy and sweet, one of the best. Consistently very high-scoring in taste tests. Early July. |
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Fantasia | Popular, large, yellow freestone. Early harvest fruit is firm-ripe and tangy, later harvest is sweet, with rich flavor: high-scoring in taste tests. Late July/early August. |
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Gold Dust | Earliest top quality peach. Yellow semi-freestone with exceptional flavor. Mid to late June in Central Calif. All-purpose, superb for eating fresh. |
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Eva's Pride | Delicious, fine-flavored peach. Medium to large-sized yellow freestone - also an early season peach available three weeks before July. |
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Snow Beauty | White-fleshed taste test winner: one of the all time highest-scoring varieties in blind fruit tastings. Low acid, high sugar, tantalizing flavor. Large, very firm, attractive red skin. Harvest early to mid-July in Central California. |
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Sugar Lady | New white flesh freestone, already a favorite at fruit stands. Sweet, mild flavor, no tartness, very firm. Beautiful dark red skin. Harvest mid-July. |
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Suncrest | A favorite fresh-market variety. Large, very firm, fine-flavored, yellow freestone. Bright red skin over yellow. Suncrest is the peach immortalized by the book Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on my Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto (1995). Tree-ripe harvest late July in Central California. Originated in Fresno, California. Introduced in 1959. |
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Snow Giant | Very large, sweet, low-acid, white-fleshed fruit. Creamy white skin with attractive red blush. Fine flavor, keeps several weeks in refrigerator. Late August harvest. |
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Loring | Taste test winner. Superb large yellow freestone. Excellent flavor and texture, low acid. Harvests over 2-3 week period, mid to late July. |
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Strawberry Free | Long-time favorite white freestone peach for California. Very sweet, aromatic, juicy, with superb, delicate flavor. Harvest in early to mid July. |
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O'Henry | Popular fresh market yellow freestone now available for home planting. Large, firm, full red skin, superb flavor. Ripens early to mid-August in central California. |
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Zee Glo |
Taste test winner. Delicious late summer fruit with classic, zesty, nectarine flavor. Superb balance of acid and sugar. Attractive, dark red skin. Harvest about two weeks after Fantasia, mid to late August. |
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Bartlett | World's most popular pear. Early mid-season, high quality, tolerates hot summers. |
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Bosc | Long & narrow shape, brown skin. Superb quality, one of the best. Harvest late October. Fresh/cooked. |
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Seckel | Connoisseurs' favorite. Sweet, flavorful, spicy, aromatic, perhaps the best. Russeted brown skin. |
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Elephant Heart | Home-orchard favorite-large, heart-shaped fruit with sweet, juicy, richly flavored, firm red flesh. Dark reddish-purple mottled skin. Long harvest season-September. |
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Howard's Miracle | Large, firm, juicy, freestone, with distinctive flavor. Amber flesh; yellow skin blushed with red. Originated in Montebello, east of Los Angeles. |
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Santa Rosa | Most popular plum in California & Arizona. Juicy, tangy, flavorful. Reddish-purple skin, amber flesh tinged red. Late June. |
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Flavor Delight | Apricot-plum hybrid. Resembles an apricot but with a distinctive flavor and texture all its own. Pleasant, lingering after taste. Early June. |
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Dapple Dandy | Taste test winner. Ranks with Flavor King and Flavor Supreme Pluots® as best-flavored fruit at Dave Wilson Nursery tastings. Creamy white and red-fleshed freestone with wonderful plum-apricot flavor. Skin greenish-yellow with red spots, turning to a maroon and yellow dapple. August harvest. |
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Flavor King | Taste test winner. Unique plum-apricot hybrid. Remarkable, spicy bouquet and flavor. Reddish-purple skin, sweet red flesh. Harvest mid August. |
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Flavor Queen | Exquisite new fruit, a plum/apricot hybrid. Candy-like sweetness, wonderfully pleasing flavor. Greenish-yellow skin, amber-orange flesh. Prolonged harvest: mid-July thru August. |
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Flavor Supreme | Taste test winner. Plum-apricot hybrid with sweet, richly flavored, firm red flesh. Greenish-maroon mottled skin. June harvest. |
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French | California's commercial prune. Reddish-purple skin, dark amber flesh. Very sweet, high quality fruit-dessert/can/dry. |
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Italian | Large, purple-skin, freestone. Rich flavor, very sweet when fully ripe. Fresh, dried or canned. Vigorous, cold hardy tree. Late bloom. Late summer harvest. |
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