GOODHUE

Also known as Goodhue Crabapple, Goodhue is thought to be a seedling of Malinda that was introduced by T.E. Perkins of Redwing, MN in Goodhue County c. 1901. T.E. Perkins was noted in the Minnesota extension bulletin as being the person who convinced University of Minnesota professor, Charles Haralson, of the value of using Malinda as a seed parent in fruit breeding. The variety Haralson is a Malinda seedling as well. Malinda is also in the parentage of the majority of the U. MN releases over the past hundred years.

Goodhue was sent to the former USDA Hort Station in Cheyenne, WY from Jewell Nursery in the 1930's where it became part of the testing program. Jewell was a Minnesota nursery that promoted the apple. Scott Skogerboe, a fruit explorer and nursery propagator in Fort Collins, CO rescued Goodhue from the Cheyenne Station long after it closed. He introduced the apple to our friend Karl Kister who in turn introduced it to us.

The roundish fruit is solid-red, tart, annually bearing, high yielding, and useful in blending with sweet apples in the making of hard cider. Scionwood from Scott.