Description
- Harvest: Early to Mid
- Description: Dayton’ carries the Vf gene for resistance to apple scab
- Skin: Red on green background
- Flesh: Pale yellow
- Vigour:
- Flowering Group: 3
- Pollination: Self-fertile
- Taste: Crisp, juicy, fine grained, and mildly sub-acid
- Storage:
- Uses: Eating and cooking
- Background: The original seedling was planted in 1969 in a breeding orchard of the Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, Ill. The seedling resulted from crossing a New Jersey selection, NJ 123249 as pollen parent, with an earlier scab-immune seedling selection, PRI (Purdue Rutgers Illinois Co Op) 1235100, as seed parent