Cortland (apple)

Cortland
SpeciesMalus domestica
Hybrid parentageMcIntosh × Ben Davis
CultivarCortland
BreederSpencer Ambrose Beach
Origin Geneva, New York, 1898

Cortland is a cultivar of apple developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, United States in 1898. It is a cross of the McIntosh and Ben Davis apples. It was named after Cortland County, near Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University. It was first bred by American horticulturalist S.A Beach.

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