The tree with the closest link to Mr. McIntosh’s first tree sits behind the store, packing rooms and warehouses at Smyth’s Apple Orchard, just beyond a formidable wood pile.

Hardy for Zones 6 to 9. ‘SPARTAN’ APPLE (Malus domestica ‘Spartan’) With the ‘McIntosh’ apple as a parent, ‘Spartan’ features crisp white flesh and streaked dark-red skin.

Anyone who has bit into a fresh McIntosh apple and marveled at the crisp snap of this extraordinary fruit should pause to thank Edmund E. Andrews and William McIntosh, of the town of Berlin. Andrews ...

The first McIntosh apple tree grew from a seed. Once the superior qualities of the fruit that this seedling bore were recognized, then the tree was multiplied by grafting -- and given the name ...

What are columnar apples? In the 1960s, a McIntosh apple tree was found expressing a natural gene mutation causing it to grow in a columnar form -- with many fruiting spurs along the main trunk.

Apple growers say an unidentified blight is killing some apple trees in northern Michigan.The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Saturday that the disease has killed some McIntosh apple trees ...

The McIntosh apple went into commercial production in 1870 as the McIntosh Red. The original McIntosh tree — which bore fruit for more than 90 years — last produced apples in 1908.

Rebecca Phillips of the Fort Street Pollinator Habitat committee gives some gardening advice and local history tidbits to Girl Scouts of Troop 10100 as she prepares the new McIntosh apple tree for ...