Maxey

Apple

Maxey

Origin/History

Received by Downing from A. L. Woodson of Hart County, Kentucky, who supplied the description of the tree and fruit. Thomas also places the variety's origin in Kentucky.

Tree

Described by the original contributor as a good grower and an annual but not early bearer, producing fair, even-sized fruit.

Fruit

Size: Downing describes the fruit as above medium; Thomas describes it as full medium.

Form: Roundish, approaching conical (Downing).

Stem: Medium length and size (Downing).

Cavity: Regular, round, smooth, lightly russeted (Downing).

Calyx: Large, open, with divided recurved segments (Downing).

Basin: Shallow, broad, regular (Downing).

Skin: Light greenish ground, with broken red stripes and splashes from the stem end of pinkish red; light dots and indistinct dark specks (Downing). Thomas notes the fruit as striped, consistent with Downing's account.

Flesh/Flavor: Flesh whitish, not very juicy or tender, subacid; rated Good (Downing). Thomas corroborates: sub-acid, good, rather dry — the dryness aligning with Downing's "not very juicy."

Core/Seeds: Core small (Downing).

Season

A winter variety and long keeper (Thomas). Keeps well into May and June (Downing); Downing gives the consumption window as May to July.

Uses

A keeping apple valued for its long storage season.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914) lists this variety (as "Maxy") only in tabular form, without prose description:

Maxy.    M  re    G  b  W

Description absent; variety present in variety-characteristic table.

Book Sources

Described in 3 period pomological works

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Maxey.

This variety we received from A. L. Woodson, Hart Co., Ky., by whom the tree is described as a good grower, an annual but not early bearer, producing fair, even-sized fruit, that keeps well into May and June.

Fruit above medium, roundish, approaching conical, light greenish ground, with broken red stripes and splashes, from the stem end, of pinkish red, light dots and indistinct dark specks. Stalk medium length and size. Cavity regular, round, smooth, lightly russeted. Calyx large, open, with divided recurved segments. Basin shallow, broad, regular. Flesh whitish, not very juicy or tender, subacid. Good. Core small. May to July.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Maxy. M re G b W

— Granville Lowther (ed.), Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914)

Maxey. Full medium, striped; sub-acid, good, rather dry. Winter. Long keeper. Ky.

— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)

Maxy