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The McIntosh Red (McIntosh, Mac) is an apple cultivar with red and green skin, a tart flavor, and tender white flesh. It becomes ripe in late September. It is traditionally the most popular cultivar in New England, well known for the pink sauce unpeeled McIntoshes make. Many consider it a superior eating apple and well suited for applesauce, cider, and pies. It is extremely common to find this particular cultivar packed in children's lunches across North America owing to its small to medium size and longstanding reputation as a healthy snack.

Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1811 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, a hamlet located in Dundas County in the Canadian province of Ontario, near Morrisburg.

Offspring of the Mac include the firmer Macoun (a Jersey Black cross), Spartan apple (a Newtown Pippin cross), Cortland, Empire, Jonamac, maybe Paula Red, Jersey Mac, and others.

Borrowing the name

Jef Raskin, a computer scientist, is credited with naming the Apple Macintosh, a computer system, after the fruit, adopting a very common misspelling often seen in grocery stores. It is possible that this spelling was used to avoid confusion with the high end audio manufacturer McIntosh. Due to the persisting popularity of the Macintosh computer line, the misspelling of the cultivar has only been perpetuated.

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McIntosh, Macintosh, or Mackintosh can refer to:

Things

  • Clan MacKintosh, a Scottish clan
  • Macintosh, a brand of personal computer from Apple Inc.

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cultivar is a cultivated plant that has been selected and given a unique name because it has desirable characteristics (decorative or useful) that distinguish it from otherwise similar plants of the same species. When propagated it retains those characteristics.
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New England

Political history
Chartering as Plymouth Council for New England 1620
Formation as United Colonies of New England 1643
Formation as Dominion of New England 1686
Admission to U.S.
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Applesauce (or apple sauce) is a purée that is made from stewed and mashed apples. It can use peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices or additives such as cinnamon. Applesauce can be fine or coarse textured, and may include large chunks of apple.
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Cider (IPA: [ˈsaɪdə(r)]) is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples mainly, though pears are also used [1]; in the UK, pear cider is known as "perry".
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pie is a baked food, with a baked shell usually made of pastry dough that covers or completely contains a filling of fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients.
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John McIntosh (August 15 1777 – ca 1846) was the Canadian farmer who is credited with discovering the McIntosh Red apple.

Overview

He was born in the Mohawk Valley in New York state in 1777, the son of a Scottish immigrant who was a loyalist during the American
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Dundas County is an historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.

Dundas was created in 1792. It was named after Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. The original territory of Dundas included portions of Carleton County, which became a separate county in 1800.
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Ontario


Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains)

Capital Toronto
Largest city Toronto
Official languages English (de facto)
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Macoun apples are a cross between the McIntosh and Arkansas black varieties. The Macoun (sometimes pronounced "McGowan") was developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, by R. Wellington. Named after Canadian fruit grower W.T.
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Cortland (also spelled Courtland) is a cultivar of apple.

After the many attributes of McIntosh were discovered, plant breeders began crossing it with other varieties to enhance its traits. One of the earliest was the Cortland, combined with the Ben Davis variety.
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Paula Red is a natural mutation of the McIntosh apple that ripens late in the summer.

Appearance and Flavor

Paula Red apples are bright red with some yellow and tan spots; the skin often has a dusty sheen.
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Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.

Early years and education

Raskin was born in New York City.
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Macintosh, commonly known as Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. Named after the McIntosh variety of apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984.
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McIntosh Labs

Corporation
Founded 1949
Headquarters Binghamton, New York

Key people Frank McIntosh, Founder
Industry Electronics
Products power amplifiers,
tube amplifiers,
integrated amplifiers,
pre-amplifiers / controllers,
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Over 7,500 cultivars of the apple are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented), and whether each produces cooking apples or dessert apples.
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Ambrosia is a cultivar of apple originating in British Columbia in the early 1980s. It is medium to large in size and has mostly red coloration, with yellow patches. It has cream-colored meat with a sweet, crisp, aromatic flavor and low acidity.
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Antonovka is a late-fall/winter apple cultivar that was widely grown in the Soviet Union and, previously, in the Russian Empire. Ivan Bunin's early short story, Antonovka Apples (1900), is a sort of ode to this apple cultivar.
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Baldwin apple is a bright red winter apple, very good in quality, and easily shipped. It was for many years the most popular apple in New England, New York, and for export from America.
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The Ben Davis apple is an apple variety originating in the American South. During the 19th century it was a popular commercial apple due to the ruggedness and keeping qualities of the fruit, but as packing and transportation techniques improved the variety fell out of favor,
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Blenheim Orange is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in about 1740.

A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Kempster’s Pippin began to be catalogued in about 1818.
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Braeburn is a cultivar of apple that is firm to the touch with a red vertical streaky appearance. Its colour intensity varies with different varieties.

Braeburn apples have a unique combination of sweet and tart flavour.
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The Bramley apple (Malus domestica 'Bramley's Seedling') is a cultivar of apple which is often eaten cooked. Raw, most people find its tarty flavour too strong, and it is either loved or hated. Once cooked, however, it has a lighter flavour.
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The Cameo is a cultivar of apple, discovered, by the Caudle family, by chance in a Dryden, Washington orchard in 1987. Its parentage is uncertain; it may be a cross between a Red Delicious and a Golden Delicious, since it was found near orchards of those fruits; it also
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Cortland (also spelled Courtland) is a cultivar of apple.

After the many attributes of McIntosh were discovered, plant breeders began crossing it with other varieties to enhance its traits. One of the earliest was the Cortland, combined with the Ben Davis variety.
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The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple.

It is so named as it was found in Truro, Cornwall the word 'gilliflower' being a corruption of a French word meaning clove-like, believed to be a reference to its odour.

It was introduced commercially in 1813.
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Cox's Orange Pippin is a cultivar of apple. The first plant was raised from a pip (of unknown origin, possibly from a Ribston Pippin) around 1825, at Colnbrook in England by a retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox.
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Cripps Pink is a cultivar variety of apple widely available in the Northern Hemisphere. It was originally produced by Apple and Pear Australia Limited by crossing the Australian apple Lady Williams
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The Egremont Russet is a cultivar of dessert apple, of the russet type. It has a rich, nutty flavour and crisp, firm and fairly juicy flesh.

It was first recorded in 1872, and is believed to have been raised by Lord Egremont at Petworth in Sussex, UK.
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