Apple cultivars are best recognized looking at six or more fruit samples including some cut in half so the flesh is visible. Also it may be necessary to be able to smell and taste them.

Some apple trees around are unnamed seedlings (pippins) that popped up on their own. Since these popular fruits are frequently planted on home lots as well as in commercial orchards some areas have a lot of these spontaneous examples, that have never been named, propagated and dispersed.

and the house in which yard this tree is located is circa 1925 which may or may not make it possible that the tree is one popular from that era. I may just have to go steal her apples....LOL..

Thank you for your input, everyone

Old-time Apple Varieties

Trees of the classic apple varieties that were planted in early Pacific Northwest orchards from about 1860 to 1920 can still occasionally be found in overgrown

farmyards, pastures, and even in suburban backyards where orchard sites were converted to residential areas and the old trees were left in place.

This list of old varieties likely to be found in the Pacific Northwest was compiled by R.A. Norton from nursery lists in the

Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture

(1914)edited by Grenville Lowther

http://ext100.wsu.edu/maritimefruit/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2014/12/OldApples.pdf

Thanks, I will check those.....

The apple in question has been identified as a Gravenstein also by a grower at the local Farmers' Market in Coos Bay....Now I know...Thank Yoiu all! I may need to get a Gravenstein tree....

That one needs to be planted with two other kinds as like most apples it is thought to need cross pollination to set well - and does not provide any fertile pollen itself. So you have to plant one kind to fertilize the 'Gravenstein' and another to interact with the second kind.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=apple+pollination+chart&qpvt=apple+pollination+chart&qpvt=apple+pollination+chart&qpvt=apple+pollination+chart&FORM=IGRE

Hmmm...interesting....thank you. It is the only apple tree that they have, though it's most likely there are other trees in their neighborhood. There are two apple trees of one sort or another that I know of here, about half a block from me and I will look for more in our area.

I'm advised now that they DO have two other apple trees in their yard.....

That does look like Gravenstein, but it's hard to tell for sure. I have a Gravenstein that I planted in 1996, and it never blossomed until 2013. It's typical for them to take 5+ years. In 2013 we got very few apples despite other varieties nearby because of rain during bloom and lack of bees, but this year we have a great crop. I picked them early to keep the squirrels from getting too many and have them in cold storage to ripen. This variety is OK to eat, but best cooked in pies, applesauce and baked apples. For eating, Fuji, which has a similar look but not as much streaking of the red has better flavor and does well in the pacific northwest.

The Gravenstein, as probably other apple varieties as well, may vary from location to location.....the trre from which that apple was taken, is in Coos Bay, Oregon. It's reported to be excellent, though I will have to ask if that means good for 'eating' also. She has been making Calvados Applesauce and pressing juice. A friend in Pistol River, Oregon has Gravenstein and says hers are not good at all....and yet she has friends pretty much in the same area whose Gravenstein has excellent apples. I planted apple trees years ago in Washington and being unexposed to deer...LOL....watched the deer eat my trees...of course, the trees were young. The friend in Coos bay has deer feeding on her windfall apples daily...and yet I see quite a few apple trees close to me here in Crescent City that are not bothered by deer at all. I don't know yet if I will plant any .....undecided...

Thank you for your response.