Description

• Origin: Originated with H. N. Gillett in Lawrence County, Ohio, USA. Brought to the attention of the Ohio Convention of Fruit growers 1848 and published in the Ohio Cultivator in 1849. According to a study by SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research Station) in Southern Ohio, the Rome Beauty was a chance seedling on the apple orchard of Joel Gillett in Rome County, Ohio. Mr Gillett gave the seedling to his son Alanson. This tree began to produce such nice fruit that people began to take notice of “Gillette’s seedling” as it was called initially. A cousin H. N Gillett started a nursery and began to promote this tree as “Rome Beauty” in the 1820s
• Tree: Spur bearer FLOWERING
• Group: 5 B;OSSOM AND
• Pollination: Self-fertile but fruits better with a pollinator such as Akane, Fuji, Gala SKIN AND
• Flesh: Late
• Harvest: Late
• Uses: Eating, cider and cooking – pies, sauce, retain its shape with cooking