Doctor

Also known as
  • Dewitt
  • Red Doctor
  • White Doctor
  • American Nonpareil
Contested date of origin. Described as "a large red-striped apple, of excellent flavour, and very juicy. It keeps tolerably well during winter." First grown by physician in Germantown.
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Blooms in Winter
Available in 1987
From Germantown
Citations:
  • Charles Scoon Wilson, The Apple in New York State (1905)

    Charles Scoon Wilson, The Apple in New York State (Master's Thesis, Cornell University, 1905)

  • James Thacher, The American Orchardist (1822)

    James Thacher, The American Orchardist; or, a Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of Apple and Other Fruit Trees… (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822)

  • Martin McGann, "Apple Cultivars in the Lower Hudson Valley Prior to 1860" (1987)

    Martin McGann, "Apple Cultivars of the Lower Hudson Valley Prior to 1860," Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Inc., Tarrytown, NY (February 1987)