Northern Spy

Greening, Porter, Northern Spy, Winesap, Baldwin, Pearmain: the Alcotts decided to name their new place Orchard House for the varieties of apple trees that grow on its east side.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

If you live in Manhattan, and are like most "New Yorkers" (aka home is somewhere else) and are missing mom this Mother's Day, head to Northern Spy where the food and atmosphere will comfort you just like your mother (if she was an old-fashioned, soda-making, pickling okra, milking the cow kind of mom).

One For The Table: Our Favorite Mother's Day Brunches 2010

But I have a big bag at home with Northern Spy, Fuji, and all sorts of other yummy apples to dig into.

An Observation That Probably Doesn’t Merit Its Own Entry, But Damn It, It’s My Blog and I Can Do What I Want, So Stop Looking at Me Like That « Whatever 2006

Our trees top-worked to Jonathan and Northern Spy are bearing good this year; they show no signs of winter-killing.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Various

The Northern Spy, the Baldwin and the Ben Davis give a good-flavored dried product.

Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

All this does not touch the main fact: our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order, just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts, -- though now and then a seedling apple, like the Northern Spy, or a seedling pear, like the Seckel, springs from a nameless ancestry and grows to be the pride of all the gardens in the land.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

The Wagener and Northern Spy are among the finer sorts.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

* When this variety is set as a permanent tree it should be top worked on a hardier stock, such as Northern Spy.

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

The Northern Spy, the McIntosh, and the Fameuse are not to be excelled as they are grown in the

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

All this does not touch the main fact: our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order, just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts, though now and then a seedling apple, like the Northern Spy, or a seedling pear, like the Seckel, springs from

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851