Chris
NP is a lot like Goldrush. Both are OK when first picked, but improve dramatically after storage. We put both apples side by side during a taste test done in early March from apples grown in Virginia and bought from refrigerated storage. Both were excellent, but more folks preferred the taste of GR rather than Albemarle Pippin (NP)
This is my final updated list. Thank you for all the great information! All on 111 rootstock.
Chestnut
Etters gold
newtown pippin
green newtown pippin
Saint Edmund’s
Golden Russet
Goldrush (6)
Black Limbertwig (2)
Fuji
King David
Spitzenberg
Pitmaston Pineapple
Staymans
Enterprise
Mott’s Pink
Grimes Golden apple
Calville Blanc
Roxbury Russet
Albemarle/Newtown Pippin also improves greatly when you let it hang late, if you’re in an environment where that’s practical. Here in coastal Northern California, I leave them on the tree until January. They’d hang longer, but the robins will come in and devour them pretty quickly after that. Here, they seem to reach their peak of crispness, sweetness and flavor just about now - and they are very, very good. I eat a lot of them in December. I’ll end up drying whatever’s left when it’s time to pick the tree clean, as I don’t have a good place to store them whole. (I may have to try the old chest freezer method.)
Anyone else notice the yellow apples seem to wind up being a lot of peoples favorites? It seems to me they tend to run a bit sweeter. I realize that’s not always true I’m just saying a higher than expected number of the most loved apples tend to be yellow.
Clark, few experts bother to distinguish the green and yellow Newtowns. They are likely different sports and Burford and other experts don’t think there is enough difference to bother with.
Newtown is an apple requiring storage if you are eating it fresh, they don’t develop their flavor until a few months in storage. This year my whole tree rotted, the worst rotter in my orchard this year, so nothing to store 
Scott,
Rot can be a big problem here as well. Sorry to here they are not working out for you. Might be better off to plant a couple more gold rush instead of those.
Good to hear that Alberarle/Newtown Pippin does well in California. It does not do well in my hot/humid NC climate but excels just a few hours north of me in central Virginia.
Folks in Virginia (especially those in Albemarle County) refused to accept that these two apples were actually the same for a long time. Its still common to see these apples in Virginia sold as Albemarle Pippin rather than Newtown. I believe that Adams County Nursery still sells the trees as “Albemarle Pippin.”
Indeed, according to Calhoun, “Today the main commercial area for this variety is Northern California where four million bushels were produced in 1990, about 2 percent of American apple production.” His Old Southern Apples has a good description of it.
Good Fruit Grower magazine this month has a good article about all the old Newtown orchards in California. It sounds like there is a lot less acreage now compared to 1990 but thanks to Martinelli there still is a demand.
Far too many Northern California apple orchards have lately been cleared and replaced with vanity (“lifestyle”) wine operations, even around Sebastopol. Don’t get me started on that!
Scott,
Thanks for pointing that out. Sounds like a wonderful article! I’m going to renew my subscription
My wife was raised in Virginia next to a 10 acre block of what they called “Pippins” -which turned out to be Newtown Pippins.
I like love the history and the taste of this apple but its a lot easier for me to grow Goldrush. Hope to do better on NP.
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is NOW!”
Glad to see you’re including Chestnut. One of my favorite tasting apples. It hasn’t fruited for me in Iowa yet, so I can’t speak to disease-resistance.
Yep. Newtown Pippin is what yer drinkin in Martinelli’s famous apple juice.
Comedian Aziz Ansari drinks Martinelli’s:
kshaunfield,
I agree more apples are always better than having less and wishing you planted more! I spend some time prepping soil prior to planting which in my area is more important than planting sometimes. Thanks to everyone who helped me out here with my apple decisions. Maybe I can grow as many apples as I grow pears in the next couple of years.
My short list would be
Northern spy
Gold rush
King David
Ashmead
Johnagold
Planting these new apples today. Waited awhile to pick these up and plant them. This is a new orchard which required soil enrichment and time to prepare for planting. The original soil is sandy clay loam. The soil was difficult stuff to work with but it will grow trees now. By the time I mowed off the weeds from the manure and wood chips I added I burned up two years on this project and had not planted a single tree.
How are these 24 apples you planted in 2017 doing Clark? Great read above.
Jerry I know this is an old post, but that really struck a cord with me because there was someone up here in Shingletown that had a log cabin that I admired and a good location to grow vegetables and he grew the best vegetables.
We’ve only been here a little over two years And I think he was up here about 4 to 5, but he recently sold his little cabin in property to a winery who is going to grow grapes.
It really bummed me out, because I really appreciated his vegetables and he had the best onions! A nice variety too. I’d much rather have his vegetables than a winery nearby. 
My seedlings, haralson, prarie spy, 39th parallel, honeycrisp, and snow aka Fameuse do the best here. In Kansas or other country to tough to grow apples should be all growing clarks crab apple. The reason i grew those seedlings is because this country was to tough to grow normal apples Clark's Crabapple