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Norland Apple Tree
Norland Apple Tree
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Norland was bred by Dr. C. R. Ure for the Prairie Fruit Breeding Cooperative at Agriculture Canada's Morden Research Station and introduced in 1979. A Rescue x Melba cross, it bears medium pale green apples covered in red stripes with off white, slightly coarse, juicy flesh.
The sweet early fruit ripens around early August and is useful fresh, in pies and sauce, and for cider. It is best soon after harvest and usually stores about one month, although slightly underripe fruit may keep for up to two months.
The naturally dwarfing tree begins bearing within three to four years and produces annually. It is somewhat susceptible to fire blight and, in wet weather, to scab.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 2
Mature Size: up to 15 ft
Growing details
- Ripening reference
- Early to mid-August; varies by site and year
- Growing site
- Full sun; well-drained loam or sandy loam preferred
- Disease context
- Susceptible to fire blight in the cited source
- Flavour
- Moderately acidic but pleasant
- Pollination
- Normally requires a different compatible apple variety for cross-pollination
- Growth and harvest context
- Vigorous upright-spreading tree; numeric mature size depends on unresolved rootstock; fruit can drop when ripe
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.