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Scionwood order
deadline:
February 21, 2025
Priority fulfillment
deadline for trees:
March 7, 2025
Final order deadline for trees:
mid-spring, when we run out of stock
Orders placed on or before March 7 will ship around
March 26 through late April, starting with warmer areas and finishing in
colder areas.
Orders placed after March 7 will ship around late
April
through early-to-mid May, in the order in which they were received.
Sorry, we cannot expedite these orders, add to existing orders or
combine orders.NOTE: Scionwood and early rootstock orders ship around March
10.
This is a twig for grafting.Early Fall. Parentage unknown. Canada, before 1700. Also called Snow.
Excellent fresh eating, great sauce and sharp cider apple. Alas, however, not a pie apple—turns to soup. The 1865 Department of Agriculture yearbook sums it up: “Flesh remarkably white, tender, juicy…deliciously pleasant, with a slight perfume… No orchard in the north can be counted as complete without this variety… It is just so good that everybody likes to eat of it; and when cooked, it is white, puffy, and delicious.”
Famous in Maine for well over 200 years. Medium-small roundish ruby-red thin-skinned fruit. Keeps until late December. As one of the few apples that comes relatively true-to-type from seed, occasional “variations on a Fameuse theme” can be found in old orchards. Thought to be a parent of McIntosh. Recent discoveries suggest that it could be one of the oldest varieties in North America. (For more details, you’ll have to check out John’s book!)
Productive long-lived tree. Susceptible to scab. Blooms mid-late. Z3.
Scions are twigs, not trees. They have no roots and will not grow if you plant them.
The deadline for ordering scionwood is February 21, 2025, for shipment around March 11. (Please note: we ship scionwood only in mid-March. If you would like to order rootstock to arrive in the same shipment, select mid-March shipping when adding the rootstock to your cart.)
We sell scionwood in two ways:
By the stick: One 8" stick will graft 3 or 4 trees.
By the foot: For orchardists grafting large numbers of trees of a particular variety, we also offer scionwood by the foot (minimum order of 10 feet per variety). In our own nursery work, we are usually able to graft 6-8 trees from one foot of scionwood.
You can graft right away or store scionwood for later use. It will keep quite well for several weeks stored in sealed ziplock bags in the refrigerator.
