Van Deman Quince Plum Type_Asian From this humble beginning grew

From this humble beginning grew one of the finest dessert apples

meaning the flesh adheres to the pit when ripe

The holiday apple is a medium apple with bright red to purple color over yellow skin

This is a great dessert apple

The Honeycrisp apple skin is mottled red over yellow with very crisp flesh

Van Deman Quince Plum Type_Asian From this humble beginning grewUSDA Certified Organic Luther Burbank required over 50,000 seedlings to produce this quince species. It won the Wilder medal at the meeting of the American Pomological Society in Washington in 1891; he named it after Professor Van Deman, who headed the Department of Pomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is very prolific, hardy, and is regarded in many parts of the East as almost the only quince worth raising. It is by far the most