No name. Not even a nickname. This is just NY 652, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station . But the grower, Samascott Orchards , tell us that 652 is "like Empress "—as well it might be, as that named variety's original number was NY 651. This medium-sized fruit has a blush over spring green that runs to a deep crimson. The blush covers most of the apple though only some is darkly saturated. The many tiny lenticels are faint on my photographed example, nearly invisible on another.
An amateur explores the pomaceous fruit