[NOTE: Source text may be incorrect — The H.H. Fisher (1963) entry almost certainly describes a completely different variety named "Barry" — a 20th-century McIntosh × Cox Orange cross introduced by a breeding station in 1957 — which is entirely distinct from the Ellwanger & Barry nursery seedling of circa 1880 described by Beach (1905). The two entries share only the name "Barry" and are not the same fruit. The Fisher entry is included below in full under a clearly labeled section. All primary descriptive content derives from Beach (1905).]

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Barry

Origin/History

Barry originated about 1880 in the nurseries of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, New York. It was recently introduced by that firm after having been thoroughly tested by them. Ellwanger & Barry recommended it as a novelty of sterling merit and one which they believed would prove valuable for commercial orchards. The variety was referenced in the Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N.Y., Catalogue of 1895. Barry resembles the Greening type of apples in color and in the acidity of the flesh.

Tree

Tree a good grower; well branched with long upright branches. Form upright, becoming spreading and somewhat open. Twigs curved and often crooked, long, medium, stout; internodes long. Bark rather light olive-green shading to reddish-brown and overlaid with thin gray scarf-skin; quite pubescent. Lenticels scattering, usually small, round, slightly raised. Buds large, broad, obtuse, appressed, pubescent. Leaves large or very large, broad.

Fruit

Size and Form

Fruit medium, sometimes large. Form roundish oblate to roundish conic, obscurely ribbed, somewhat irregular.

Stem

Stem medium.

Cavity

Cavity acute, deep, rather broad, usually with some thin greenish russet, broadly furrowed.

Calyx

Calyx small to medium, closed; lobes acute. Calyx tube medium size, conical or funnel-shaped. Stamens marginal.

Basin

Basin abrupt, rather shallow to rather deep, narrow to moderately wide, with narrow furrows and wrinkled.

Skin

Skin tough, smooth, clear pale yellow or greenish with faint shade of red on the exposed cheek. Dots numerous, minute, pale, submerged, and a few show a brown or russet point. Prevailing effect green or greenish yellow.

Flesh and Flavor

Flesh firm, moderately fine to fine, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, sprightly, good.

Core and Seeds

Core medium to rather large, abaxile, open; core lines clasping. Carpels elliptical, much concave, emarginate, tufted. Seeds numerous, medium, obtuse, medium to dark brown.

Season

Late.

Uses

Recommended as valuable for commercial orchards.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Regarding the H.H. Fisher (USDA ARS) 1963 entry: Fisher's survey lists a variety also called "Barry" with entirely different characteristics and a separate origin: introduced by the Station in 1957, parentage McIntosh × Cox Orange, fruit medium-large with solid dark red blush, quality good to very good, ripening two weeks before McIntosh. Reporting stations included the Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Pomology, Geneva, New York (station number 4111; AES, Geneva, N.Y.); Agricultural Research Service, Irrigation Experiment Station, Prosser, Washington (station number AP-H-377); Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus, St. Paul, Minnesota (station number N588); Agricultural Experiment Station of Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Agricultural Experiment Station, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Graham Horticultural Experiment Station, Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maine, Orono, Maine (received from AES, Orono, Maine, 1960). This entry does not appear to describe the same variety as the Ellwanger & Barry nursery seedling documented by Beach, and its details are preserved here for completeness rather than merged into the main description.