Frank P Matthews 'Spartan' Apple Fruit Tree - 12Ltr PotMaroon coloured apples which look more dull than some, but with no less flavour juicy and crisp! Fruit Tree Harvest: October Root Stock MM106 Eventual Size: 3m Approx FPM* Spartan is a heavy cropping, very popular dessert apple of McIntosh type. Fruit is maroon, sweet, juicy and crisp with a white flesh. At best, perfumed with flavour like a cross between strawberry and melon; often described as vinous. An apple that ripens quite late in the season,