Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 Disease Resistance: Excellent

Disease Resistance: Excellent

coarse-grained and crisp

they were sold in markets right up until the 1930s

Extremely hardy tree

keeps and ships well

Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 Disease Resistance: ExcellentUSDA Certified Organic Horticulturalist Peter Gideon grew the first Wealthy apple tree in 1868. Gideon sent the family's last dollars to an apple grower in Bangor, Maine, and got a bushel of apple seeds in return. Just one of these seeds, crossed with Gideon's Siberian crab apple, produced the apple that Gideon later named the Wealthy apple, after his wife, Wealthy Gideon. The Wealthy apple tree was the earliest apple to thrive in the Minnesota