Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 dime-sized berries that ripen a

dime-sized berries that ripen a handful or two at a time July-August

and measured at 18

wine-like flavor

keeps and ships well

Disease Resistance: Excellent

Wealthy Apple Tree USDA Zone_8 dime-sized berries that ripen aUSDA 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