Apple tree named 'lynn'

#Malus pumila, Mill.

#‘Nelson’

#Disclosed is a new and distinct variety of apple (Malus pumila, Mill) that was discovered in a cultivated area of the back yard of my residence off Washington State Highway 28, Rock Island, Wash. The seedling apparently germinated in about 1990 and was basically ignored until it fruited in 1999. I noticed the color and quality of this initial fruit. In the Spring of 2000, I grafted budwood from the seedling onto about 100 ‘Jonagold’ (unpatented) trees growing on Malling 7 (unpatented) rootstock. This grafting took place in Rock Island, Wash. Approximately 10 of these grafts produced fruit in 2001. The fruit from these grafts and other characteristics of these grafts were identical to the fruit and other characteristics of the original seeding, thus confirming the stability of this new variety. I decided to call my new variety ‘Nelson’.

#The accompanying color photographs (digital images) show typical tree, fruit, flower, and leaf Specimens of my new apple tree variety and depict the color as near to true as is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character. It should be noted that colors may vary with growing conditions and time of year as well as with lighting conditions at the time the photographs are taken.

#FIG. 1 is a photograph of the original tree of the ‘Nelson’ cultivar, showing multiple trunks, characteristic of a neglected seedling.

#FIG. 2 is a photograph of the bloom of the ‘Nelson’ cultivar.

#The detailed description that follows is based on observations made of the original ‘Nelson’ cultivar tree growing in a cultivated area in Rock Island, Wash. This site is characteristic of orchard sites throughout north central Washington, near Wenatchee, Wash., where a wide variety of fruit, vegetable, and agronomic crops are grown under supplemental irrigation.

#Scientific Name: Malus pumila, Mill. ‘Nelson’.

#Parentage: Seedling of unknown parentage.