Cultivar 1803: Transcendent Seedling

Transcendent Seedling was an unnamed winter apple raised by J. S. Harris of La Crescent, Minnesota, from seed of Transcendent crab. Hansen listed it among northwestern apples. He used it as evidence that seed from Transcendent crab could produce larger apple-type fruit, not only small crab fruit. [S1]

The fruit is medium sized, oblate, truncated, and slightly angular. The skin is greenish yellow with a thin covering of mixed and striped dull red. It has many small light-russet dots that roughen the surface. The cavity is wide, obtuse, deep, and regular, with a long stem. The basin is wide, rather shallow, and slightly wrinkled. The calyx is half open. [S1]

The flesh is white, moderately juicy, mild, pleasantly subacid, and rated good. Its season is winter. The class table also lists it among striped apples and repeats the winter season and wide, shallow, wrinkled basin. [S1]

No direct hardiness zone is given. The evidence is geographic and historical. It appears in a South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin on northwestern apples and was raised in southeastern Minnesota, within the upper Midwestern hardy apple context of the source. [S1]

Its parentage is only partly known. The maternal seed source was Transcendent crab, but the pollen parent is not named. Hansen links Transcendent Seedling with Mills as examples showing that large apples could be raised from Transcendent crab seed. [S1]

Summary source basis

• S1: A Study of Northwestern Apples

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

Featured source descriptions

“Dots obscure, minute, many, light russet; cavity wide, obtuse, deep, regular; stem long; basin wide, rather shallow, slightly wrinkled; calyx half open.”
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“Basin wide, shallow, wrinkled.”
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“Flesh white, moderately juicy, mild, pleasant subacid, good.”
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“This variety and the Mills indicate that large apples may be raised from Transcendent crab seed.”
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• Transcendent Seedling - An unnamed winter apple raised from seed of Transcendent crab by the late J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minnesota ... Fruit medium, oblate, truncatcd, slightly angular; surface somewhat roughened by the dots, greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed and striped dull red; dots obscure, minute, manA Study of Northwestern Apples, p108
• Transcendent Seedling - An unnamed winter apple raised from seed of Transcendent crab by the late J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minnesota ... Fruit medium, oblate, truncatcd, slightly angular; surface somewhat roughened by the dots, greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed and striped dull red; dots obscure, minute, manA Study of Northwestern Apples, p108
• Transcendent Seedling - An unnamed winter apple raised from seed of Transcendent crab by the late J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minnesota ... Fruit medium, oblate, truncatcd, slightly angular; surface somewhat roughened by the dots, greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed and striped dull red; dots obscure, minute, manA Study of Northwestern Apples, p108
• Transcendent Seedling - An unnamed winter apple raised from seed of Transcendent crab by the late J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minnesota ... Fruit medium, oblate, truncatcd, slightly angular; surface somewhat roughened by the dots, greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed and striped dull red; dots obscure, minute, manA Study of Northwestern Apples, p108

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