Applevariety
Holiday
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1940 and introduced in 1964; sweet, wine-like, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA
Released 1964
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 58.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Holiday began
Recorded origin
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA
United States
- Released
- 1964
Holiday’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Holiday
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 58.00 mm
- parentage
- Macoun x Jonathan
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.