Jonathan (apple)

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Apple cultivar

title: "Jonathan (apple)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cooking-apples", "american-apples"] description: "Apple cultivar" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(apple)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Apple cultivar ::

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FieldValue
nameMalus domestica Jonathan
imageMalus-Jonathan.jpg
speciesMalus domestica
cultivarJonathan
originWoodstock, New York, before 1826
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| name = Malus domestica Jonathan | image = Malus-Jonathan.jpg | species = Malus domestica | cultivar = Jonathan | origin = Woodstock, New York, before 1826
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Pomological_Watercolor_POM00000538.jpg" caption="Jonathan"] ::

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Jonathan is a medium-sized sweet

  • Sugar 12.5%
  • Acid 7.7 g/litre
  • Vitamin C 5mg/100g. ::data[format=table title="Typical size distribution"] | 55-60 mm | 60-65 mm | 65-70 mm | 70-75 mm | |---|---|---|---| | 9 % | 17 % | 38 % | 31 % | ::

History

There are two alternative theories about the origin of the Jonathan apple.

The first theory; it was grown by Rachel Negus Higley, who gathered seeds from the local cider mill in Connecticut. This was before the family made their journey to the wilds of Ohio in 1796, where she planted them. She continued to carefully cultivate her orchard to maturity and named the resulting variety after a young local boy, Jonathan Lash, who frequented her orchard.

The other, more accepted, theory is that it originated from an Esopus Spitzenburg seedling in 1826, on the farm of Philip Rick(s) in Woodstock, Ulster County, New York. A DNA profiling study supports this descent. Although it may have originally been called the "Ricks" apple, it was soon renamed by Judge Jesse Buel, President of Albany Horticultural Society, after Jonathan Zander, who discovered the apple and brought it to Buel's attention. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Pomological_Watercolor_POM00002151.jpg" caption="Esopus Spitzenburg a parent of Jonathan"] ::

Descendants

Disease susceptibility

References

References

  1. "National Fruit Collection UK".
  2. [[apple]], with a touch of acid and a tough but smooth skin, good for eating fresh and for cooking. Parentage = Esopus Spitzenburg x ?Luby, Howard, Tillman, Bedford. HortScience 57(3):472-477. 2022
  3. (1905). "The apples of New York". J. B. Lyon.
  4. (2014). "Obstsorten Atlas". Nikol.
  5. "Obst und Garten 10/2000".
  6. Johnson, Mary Coffin. (1896). "The Higleys and their ancestry". D. Appleton and Company.
  7. DOI 10.1186/s12870-019-2171-6
  8. "Southwest Regis-Tree of Heirloom Perennial Species and Varieties-Fruit and Nut descriptions".
  9. Dr. Stephen Miller of the USDA Fruit Research Lab in Kearneysville, West Virginia.{{full citation needed. (September 2018)

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