Cultivar 1771: Rollins Prolific

Rollins Prolific is a Minnesota apple described in N. E. Hansen's A Study of Northwestern Apples among hardy northwestern cultivars. The bulletin places it in the Romna Group context and lists it as a winter apple. It gives no breeder, release date, or direct parentage [S1].

The fruit is medium sized, regular, and roundish conical. The skin is yellowish green, with minute white dots that often have green areoles, plus occasional russet dots [S1]. The flesh is white, juicy, fine grained, and brisk subacid [S1]. Hansen also records a closed, clasping core, a funnel-shaped tube, marginal stamens, and ten to fourteen seeds. A few seeds are abortive, but the rest are plump [S1].

Rollins Prolific is listed as a winter apple, which indicates its keeping or use season rather than a precise harvest date [S1]. No culinary use is stated beyond the fruit description, so its fresh or kitchen value remains unclear.

The available source gives no tree habit, productivity details, disease notes, or pruning observations. The name suggests productivity, but the packet does not include an explicit source statement for that trait.

Hardiness is implied only by the bulletin's northwestern and cold climate evaluation context. No zone rating, winter survival record, or trial location beyond Minnesota origin is given [S1].

Its broader classification is apple within the bulletin's Malus domestica cultivar coverage [S1]. The Romna Group page context may be relevant to its catalog placement, but the packet does not establish direct parentage, close relatives, siblings, or later breeding use.

Summary source basis

• S1: A Study of Northwestern Apples

This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.

Featured source descriptions

“Core closed, clasping; tube funnel-shaped; stamens marginal; seeds ten to fourteen, a few abortive, plump.”
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“Listed under tube funnel-shaped, stamens marginal, with core closed.”
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“Flesh is white, juicy, fine grained, brisk subacid.”
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Source-story quotations

• Rollins Prolific—Origin, Minnesota—Fruit medium, roundish conical, regular; surface yellowish green; dots minute, white, often with green areola, often a few russet dots; ... Winter.A Study of Northwestern Apples, p95
• Rollins Prolific—Origin, Minnesota—Fruit medium, roundish conical, regular; surface yellowish green; dots minute, white, often with green areola, often a few russet dots; ... Winter.A Study of Northwestern Apples, p95
• Rollins Prolific—Origin, Minnesota—Fruit medium, roundish conical, regular; surface yellowish green; dots minute, white, often with green areola, often a few russet dots; ... Winter.A Study of Northwestern Apples, p95
• Rollins Prolific—Origin, Minnesota—Fruit medium, roundish conical, regular; surface yellowish green; dots minute, white, often with green areola, often a few russet dots; ... Winter.A Study of Northwestern Apples, p95

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