Anyone remember "June Apples"?

[clovis]

My mom was wondering about some apples her dad grew. They called them June apples.

They were a yellow apple, and mom remembers them to be very sweet.

They were also ready to eat in late June or early July.

My grandfather had a small orchard at the time, and this was one of the apples he grew. This would have been in the late 1950's.

Anyone remember these, or know anything about them?

TIA!!!!!!
Clove

[uncle Will in In.]

Many people used to have an early maturing apple tree that produced a pale yellow apple that was sweet. They didn't keep very well at all. When they were cooked they turned to sauce right away. They made a good early fruit for people who had been relying on canned fruit all winter. My parents called these YELLOW TRANSPARENTS

[Nette]

Oh, yes, I remember! We had a June-apple tree in our front yard when I was little, and it was the only tree I could actually climb. I haven't tasted those apples in years...

[12vman]

My mom used to make jelly out of these.. Lots of seeds but very tasty..

http://www.briartech.com/earlyspring/mayapple/may.htm

[HermitJohn]

Originally Posted by 12vman

My mom used to make jelly out of these.. Lots of seeds but very tasty..

http://www.briartech.com/earlyspring/mayapple/may.htm

The mayapples are up here by way, but they arent talking about mayapples, but a very early bearing apple tree referred to as a June apple. Apples kinda meally from what I remember. You could eat them fresh but more of a cooking apple and they didnt keep very long.

[12vman]

Thanks, HermitJohn..

I never seen such a thing around here but boy, Them May Apples is gooood..

[Marilyn]

Are May apples edible?

[12vman]

Sure.. I'm still typin'..

"It is reported that the apple can be eaten however the roots, stems and leaves are poisonous."

[wildhorse]

Ive always known them as transparents.

[IMContrary]

We had a June apple tree in our backyard when I was growing up. They were small and never really got that ripe. My mom would have us pick them and she'd make fried apples with them.

[HermitJohn]

Originally Posted by wildhorse

Ive always known them as transparents.

There may have been local variations in what things were called, but yellow transparents were little latter ripening than June apples from what I remember and much larger. Think they ripened in late July. Transparents were definitely the applesauce apple. June apples were red, soft, and not very big. Little bigger than a Whitney crab if I remember. I wouldnt even mind having a June apple tree if I could find one. It wouldnt have to deal with our annual July-August-September drought in its reproductive cycle.

June Apple

June Apple

Wish I was a june apple
Hanging on a tree
Everytime my true love pass
Take a bite of me
Take a bite of me my love
Take a bite of me
Everytime my true love pass
take a bite of me.

You ride the old grey mare
I'll ride the roan
You get there before I do
Leave my gal alone

Train on the island
Heard that whistle blow
Thought I heard my true love say
Yonder comes my beau

Going 'cross the mountain
I'm going in a swing
And when I get to the other side
I'll hear my true love sing.

Don't you hear that banjo sing
I wish that gal was mine
Can't you hear that banjo sing
I wish that gal was mine.

Charlie he's a nice young man
Charlie he's a dandy
Charlie he's a nice young man
Feeds the girls on candy.

Goin down to the river to feed my sheep
Going down to the river Charlie
Going down to the river to feed my sheep
Feed them on Barley.

[HermitJohn]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

Are May apples edible?

Yes the ripe fruit is, but pretty bland unless you just use them as filler and doctor them up. I wouldnt bother with them unless desperate or had a favorite old recipe that used them. I mean you can even make preserves/jelly out of things like watermelon rind so .....

[diane]

Getting a ripe apple in June must be a southern thing? I have a yellow cooking apple that ripens the middle to the end of July out back. I had better get to them as soon as they are ripe cause they sure don't keep very long.

[Mutti]

This was proabably a yellow transparent...a comparitable apple for early harvest would be the LODI--ripe by the end of June down in MO....only problem is we have to get them ahead of the deer. They don't seem to bother the late hard apples but they love these. The Lodi aren't a keeping apple but excellent in pie/sauce and quite sweet on their own. DEE

[Ramblin Wreck]

We had a couple of June apple trees when I was growing up. They were OK, but, if I remember correctly, not the most disease resistant tree.

[clovis]

Wow! Thank you for your responses.

I couldnt find anything when doing a search for "June Apples", but under yellow transparent, there are tons!!!!!!!

Mom has really enjoyed the responses, so keep them coming!!!

Clove

[sammyd]

Our yellow transparents come on pretty early in central WI. Maybe not June but not far off.
Taste like applesauce right off the tree. Make pretty good jelly too.

[Ralph in N.E.Oh]

Yep, Yellow Transparent

[HermitJohn]

June apples are RED and small and ripen in JUNE. Transparents are GREENISH YELLOW and large and ripen in JULY. Not the same apple. The only thing they have in common is they are both early and dont keep well.

[freegal]

I think the ones on our WI family farm were Lodi apples.