The Apple: One of the best multi-use apples. Crisp, juicy, tender, aromatic, very good to best quality dessert apple. Brilliantly colored red apple sometimes with carmine stripes. Ripens end of September. Heavy cropper that comes into bearing young and is generally a biennial bearer. The apple is medium sized, round, and red flushed over a greenish yellow background. The flesh is firm, snappy, and juicy, and the flavor is refreshing, full, and balanced. Jacobsen describes it as "the essence of the American apple ... spicy, uncomplicated, sweet-tart." This is a lovely tree to plant for children.
Bloom: mid-season
Storage: 4-6 months
Location Found: Nucla, Redvale
Pollination: Does not need a pollinator partner, partially self-fertile.
Tree: A naturally small tree, Jonathan is roundish or spreading in
form and somewhat droopy. It is self-fertile. Jonathan is susceptible
to all major apple diseases, but only moderately, and it is not
considered a remarkably difficult tree to cultivate.