Apple 'Golden Delicious'

This has been the standard for yellow fall apples in my lifetime. It has a good flavor with crisp flesh for eating out of hand. It has a ...Read Morethin skin and will shrivel quickly with out controlled storage. It is good for cooking where one wishes to keep the flesh whole. I love them as fried apples as they do not break up into applesauce. It is also one of the few cultivars that will grow reasonably well in this area of Georgia.

A truly wonderful apple when well-grown, Golden Delicious arose as a seedling on the farm of Anderson Mullins of Clay Co., West Virginia,...Read More in 1912. It is believed to be a cross of Grimes Golden, another fine old West Virginia apple, and Golden Reinette. The propagation rights for the apple were sold to Stark Brothers Nursery in 1914 who immediately erected a steel fence around the tree to prevent theft of scionwood for illegal propagation. However, some cuttings were eventually stolen and sold under the name of Yellow Delicious. Fruit is large, conic to round in shape with mostly smooth golden yellow skin with occasional russet patches. The crisp, clean juicy yellow flesh is sweet and mild. A self-fertile tree that is an excellent choice for a pollinator tree. Ripens mid to late September.