Description
- Harvest: Early to mid
- Description: Spur bearer, round shaped fruit
- Skin: Bright red and green with a bit of stripe or fleck
- Flesh: White
- Vigour: V2
- Flowering Group: 2
- Taste: Tender flesh with a tart flavour
- Uses: Eating
- Background: The national apple of Canada. John Mc Intosh discovered the original Mc Intosh sapling on his Dundela farm in Upper Canada in 1811. He and his wife bred it, and the family started grafting the tree and selling the fruit in 1835. In 1870, it entered commercial production, and became common in north-eastern North America after 1900