Northern Spy

Northern Spy ( Scouts of the North) is a type of apple.

This species was discovered in 1800 in East Bloomfield (New York) in the U.S. as a chance seedling.

The fruits are large, built blunted round and usually somewhat uneven. The smooth, oily and slightly shiny shell is filled with many, very small brown shell points. The deck color is red to crimson, the color is greenish-yellow later changed but mostly yellow. The flesh is yellowish white, juicy with a renettenartigen spice. The fruit ripens very late, are from January ripe enough to eat and keep up in May. The variety can be used both as an eating apple, as well as for cooking and baking or for juice.

The trees of this species come rather late in the yield, are vigorous in growth, however, tend to biennial.

He is one of the parent variety of Ontarioapfels, the other crossing partner was Wagener. Even in the base breeding of Northern Spy was used, such as the frequently used for espalier trees Pad MM106 from the intersection M1 × Northern Spy emerged.