Apple - Cortland
All-around variety, enjoy fresh or baked into apple pies and other desserts. Apples have a yellow peel color covered with a blush of crimson red. Inside is bright white and slow to turn brown. The texture is fine-grained and very juicy. This is a soft variety without much crunch. One of the best uses is to make applesauce.
We suggest that all APPLE varieties be cross pollinated with another variety. Golden Delicious and flowering crab apples are the most commonly used pollinators in commercial plantings.
Rootstock: EMLA 111- produces a tree about two-thirds the size of a standard tree. Vigorous scion varieties and better soils may grow to three-quarter size or larger. EMLA 111 is a good producing rootstock, is well anchored and tolerant of drought conditions. It is widely adapted to most soil conditions.