One of my old bosses used to purchase bushels of an heirloom  dessert apple from a New England orchardist who brought his crop to the Atlanta farmers' market.  It had a paper-white skin with a pink blush when ripe, an amazing fragrance which made it a pleasure to keep, sweet flavor, but stored badly.  He called it a strawberry apple and said that it wouldn't grow in the South. 

Tossing this one out so you Yankees can search this one out and grow it.  It may have another name, but by any name, it's worth growing and eating.  Haven't had one in fifteen years, and my mouth still waters.

must be a cross of granny smith and something elso from years ago I have heard about that a tart bt sweet together and the name has crossed my mind several times this month and it has been around forever and handed down and down each generation and its reaaaalllly good specially for baking like that and cooking now I going to do research until I find the name..

No, it's not a Granny Smith cross.  It's a sweet apple, not tart or acidic at all, no good whatever for cooking, and the skin is pure white, copy paper white with a little pink-lipstick tinge along the sides.  Joe bought them from an Italian, if that helps.

I remember a tart-sweet heirloom grown in the Tennessee valley--it turned greenish-yellow and was an early ripener; it's the one they always planted on outhouse holes and it made superb fried apples and jam. Called it a "June apple".

hmmm sounds good.

littlepitcher:

One of my old bosses used to purchase bushels of an heirloom  dessert apple from a New England orchardist who brought his crop to the Atlanta farmers' market.  It had a paper-white skin with a pink blush when ripe, an amazing fragrance which made it a pleasure to keep, sweet flavor, but stored badly.  He called it a strawberry apple and said that it wouldn't grow in the South. 

My new Stark Bros catalogue had a "strawberry" apple listed among the heirloom apples.  you might want to go online under "Stark Bros" & see if it is the same kind.

 Now that I have the catalogue in front of me, it's called a "Chenango Strawberry Apple".  The description says "A strawberry scented apple!  Medium-to-large fruit has yellow-to-green skin with red stripes.  Ripens in Spetember. Harvest early for best results. Best pollinator: Cinnamon Spice apple"  It is rated for zones 4-9, tho, which means it WOULD grow in the South, so this still might not be the apple you are thinking about.

thats it zohn you have it now to look it up and get it it drove me nuts looking for it ,now I have a granny smith in my yard along with another breed its a cross breed I have done years ago with mom the apples were great we exparamented with seeds and got a sweet tart type appele but I don't want to exprament no more we have done that with apples for years it kept us off the streets and outta trouble naahhh its mom was good with chemastry me the cross breeding i learned it in school years ago survial for farms and sales type of stuff it was a course in school they called it underwater basket weaving the teachers said its a wasit of time no it wasn't we got one good tree lasted almost 20 years within the next couple of years got to dig it up and no more tree its a nice tree but its not doing to well but it was fun.

Definitely not the same critter, but it might be an offspring or progenitor.  The one I used to purchase was white as typing paper, just a faint blush in spots, thin-skinned and nearly white-fleshed.  Per the seller, it was grown in New England.  Since an Italian sold it to him, it could have been an Italian heirloom?

littlepitcher:

Definitely not the same critter, but it might be an offspring or progenitor.

Could well be, since it is an heirloom.  If the apple came from Italy, tho, I am guessing it would have to be a sport from it rather than a progenitor.  I know Golden Delicious apples are heirlooms & were a sport with different characteristics from seeds from an unknown tree.This could be the same process.  If it wasn't a sport, then they couldn't both be heirloom apples ( true from seed), & still be related. 

 I live in the middle of Vermont apple orchards and have never seen an apple of this discription. Babs