The 'Melon' apple, also called 'Watermelon' and 'Norton's Melon' is a partly red dessert apple in season from autumn through early winter. Its quality is excellent, but it does not keep well into late winter.^[1] It originated among seedling trees that were brought from Connecticut to make an orchard in New York state in 1800.^[1]

'Melon'
Hybrid parentage	unknown
Cultivar	'Melon'
Origin	Connecticut and later Ontario County, New York, United States, before 1800