Northern Spy
Also known as King Apple +6
King Apple · King's Apple · Severnui Razvedchik · Severnui Shpion · Spaeher des Nordens · Spaher des Nordens · Spy
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1800 and introduced in 1840; sweet, juicy and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · East Bloomfield, New York, USA
Released 1840
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 81.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Northern Spy began
Recorded origin
East Bloomfield, New York, USA
United States
- Released
- 1840
Northern Spy’s family
23 varieties · 22 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Northern Spy
East Bloomfield, New York, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Northern Spy
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 81.00 mm
- height
- 70.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- sports
- Crimson Spy Double Red Northern Spy Hunter Kinkead Spy Kinkead Red Spy Loop Spy
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- King Apple, King's Apple, Severnui Razvedchik, Severnui Shpion, Spaeher des Nordens, Spaher des Nordens, Spy
- father to
- Pewaukee Ontario
- mother to
- Sandow Sunrise Emilia Thurso Ascot Galton Glenton Spiza
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.