albion russet

GR-1. In about 1995 Jack Kertesz found this russet-fruiting tree growing in a thicket of young deciduous trees by the side of Quaker Hill Road in Albion, Maine. He thought it was a seedling, and I was willing to go along that. I topworked it to a tree at Super Chilly Farm, and once it began to fruit, I realized it was a really nice apple. We submitted it to the Seedling Exhibition in western Mass, and they liked it too. I decided I should graft a few more to make sure we didn’t lose it. Meanwhile the original tree died. Eventually we did a DNA profile and it matched GR-1, the true Golden Russet of Western New York.