Melrose

Sweet
Description

Melrose, also known as White Melrose, is a large, ribbed, light-yellow apple with a sweet-sharp flavor. It is a good cooking apple, as it keeps its shape. Harvest begins in mid-September. It does not keep well.

Discovered: 1944, Ohio

Parentage: Jonathan x Red Delicious

Harvest: Midseason

History

Melrose was developed in Ohio in 1944.