Taxon

Malus pumila 'Esopus Spitzenburg'

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Common name: Esopus Spitzenburg Apple
Family: Rosaceae (Rose)
Hardiness: USDA Zone 4
Life form: Deciduous tree
Usage: Ornamental, Edible
Comments: 'Esopus Spitzenburg' was one of Thomas Jefferson's two favorite dinner or table Apple varieties, the other being 'Albemarle Pippin'. He planted thirty-two of these trees in the South Orchard at Monticello between 1807 and 1812. A.J. Downing, America's foremost nineteenth century pomologist, described 'Esopus Spitzenburg' as "a handsome, truly delicious apple...unsurpassed as a dessert fruit...considered the first of apples." Today, Apple connoisseurs still consider this variety among the finest ever known.
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