Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 they were sold in markets

they were sold in markets right up until the 1930s

Extremely hardy tree

dime-sized berries that ripen a handful or two at a time July-August

Laxtons Fortune tends to be a compact tree producing good crops but tends to be biennial

Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 they were sold in marketsUSDA Certified Organic Horticulturalist Peter Gideon grew the first Wealthy apple tree in 1868. Gideon sent the family's last dollars to an apple grower in Bangor, Maine, and got a bushel of apple seeds in return. Just one of these seeds, crossed with Gideon's Siberian crab apple, produced the apple that Gideon later named the Wealthy apple, after his wife, Wealthy Gideon. The Wealthy apple tree was the earliest apple to thrive in the Minnesota