Apple Index - "I"
Improved Winter Jon (Winter Jon, Winter John, Sour Jon)
Description: Fruit medium to above medium, oblong; skin yellow, often with fine netting of russet. Occasionally slightly blushed on the sunny side. High quality eating apple that ripens in October.
Tom Brown also found this apple.
Uses: Fresh Eating
Ingram® (Ingraham, Ingram’s Seedling)
Description: Fruit medium or above, roundish but occasionally oblong, conical; skin thick, smooth, almost completely covered with dark red; dots numerous, whitish or russet, sometimes areolar. Flesh tinged yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, aromatic, mild subacid. Ripe October and keeps until February or later.
History: This apple originated before 1855 with Martin Ingram near Springfield, Missouri, and was thought to be a seedling of Rall’s Janet, “same size but higher color.”
Uses: Fresh Eating, Cider, Stores well
Isam
Description: Fruit small to below medium, roundish; skin pale yellow, lightly mottled and striped with pinkish red on the sunny side; dots large, conspicuous, russet. Flesh tinged yellow, juicy, moderately crisp, subacid. Ripe August/September.
History: A family apple prized and nurtured by the Misenheimer family of North Carolina for over a hundred years. Isam originated with Isam Misenheimer (1818-97) who lived and farmed at Misenheimer Springs, Stanley County, near Richfield, North Carolina.