Sweet Sprightly Flavored
USDA Zones: 7–9
Non-Self-Pollinating
Bloom Time-Early-season
 
Synonyms: Bachelor, Byers, Byers Red, Equinetelee, Henshaw, Jackson’s Red, King, Fall Queen, Fall Queen of Kentucky, Frankfort Queen, Iola, Ladies Favorite of Tennessee, Large Summer Pearmain, Lexington Queen, Oxeye, Queen, Red Horse, Red Gloria Mundi, Winter Cheese, Winter Queen
 
Fruit medium to large variable in size oblate and irregular occassionally with slight conic, smooth yellow skin covered with dull dark red striping and small light colored specks, tender juicy with a sweet sprightly subacid flavor. Ripe August to September. Believed to originated in Louisa County, Virginia in the 1770's in the garden of Colonel John Byers, Colonel Byers called the apple Queen but locals who acquired it called it Byer's apple or Byer's Red, later North Carolina settlers from the Buckingham county, Virginia area carried with them this apple which they named the county in which acquired it was from. The Buckingham apple was popular and favored, traveling many places from its origins through the US with settlers. Described to be indispensable in early catalogs. Ripe August-September
 
Use: Fresh/Cider
Storage: Great Keeper
Scion Credit: Hocking Hills Orchards
Ripe in August/September
Est. Chill Requirement: Estimate 400-500