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McIntosh Red (apple)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a highly popular eating apple having a ruddy skin and juicy, white flesh.

Quotations

1878

Winter apples; here my list will be small, but I think reliable: Talman's Sweet, Pomme Grise, American Golden Russet, and McIntosh Red.

1923

Artistically stacked oats eke out asparagus very successfully as a background against which to heap . . . Ponderosa tomatoes, Mackintosh Red apples and braided strands of Golden Bantam corn.

1964

John McIntosh, an early settler in Dundas County, transplanted a number of wild apple trees in 1796, and one of them lived to allow grafts to be distributed throughout the province, the McIntosh Red earning the reputation of being one of the best apples.