Description
Duchess of Oldenburg is a stunning apple, with beautiful, yellow-and-red striped skin. Its flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, and juicy. A highly aromatic apple, it has excellent culinary qualities. An early apple, it ripens in late August. It does not keep especially well.
Discovered: Age unknown, Russia
Parentage: Unknown
Harvest: Early Season
History
Duchess of Oldenburg, also known as Charlamowsky, was one of four Russian apples (with Alexander, Red Astrachan, and Tetofsky) imported to the United States by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society from the London Horticultural Society in 1835.
