Senator

Description

Harvest: Late
Description: A flattish round, medium size apple
Skin: Thick, smooth, glossy yellow skin overlaid with rich-red and streaks of darker red. The surface is punctuated with large, conspicuous, light coloured dots
Flesh: The yellowish flesh is fine-grained and juicy and often stained with red
Vigour:
Flowering Group:
Pollination: Self-fertile
Taste: Fine grained, juicy and sweet
Storage: Long keeping qualities
Uses: Eating
Background: In the early 1800’s, John Oliver of Washington County, Arkansas raised an apple tree on his farm that produced a striking red apple with large, distinctive dots, or lenticels, over the skin’s surface. It became a very popular local variety and was widely grown in the Ozarks of Arkansas. In 1895, Stark Bro’s Nursery sold this apple under the trademarked name, Senator

Product Type	Scion, Tree
Origin	USA
Product Year	1800s
Harvest	L
Uses	Eating
Description	Arkansas raised an apple tree on his farm that produced a striking red apple with large, conspicuous, distinctive dots, glossy yellow skin overlaid with rich-red and streaks of darker red. The surface is punctuated with large, John Oliver of Washington County, juicy and sweet Storage: long keeping qualities Uses: Eating Background: In the early 1800’s, light coloured dots Flesh: The yellowish flesh is fine-grained and juicy and often stained with red. Vigour: Flowering group: Pollination: Self-fertile Taste: Fine grained, medium size apple . Skin: thick, or lenticels, over the skin’s surface. It became a very popular local variety and was widely grown in the Ozarks of Arkansas. In 1895, Senator Harvest: Late Description: A flattish round, Senator., smooth, Stark Bro’s Nursery sold this apple under the trademarked name