Archive for 2013 June

Belmont

Also known as: Belmont Late, Gate, Gait, Kelley White, Mamma Beam, Mamma Bean, Waxen Apple, White Belmont is an outstanding apple which might remind you of Cox’s Orange Pippin with its high quality flavor. This attractive apple originated in the garden of a Mrs. Beam …

Baldwin

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Also known as: Baldwin Rosenapfel, Baldwin’s Rother Pippin, Red Baldwin Pippin, Woodpecker, Butters, Steele’s Red Winter, Flech Once one of the largest selling commercial varieties in the northeast, Baldwin was replaced by McIntosh and other varieties when several million Baldwin trees were killed by a …

Bald Mountain

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In Lee Calhoun’s wonderful book, Old Southern Apples, he recalls the day in March 1989, when he received a letter from Mr. Charles W. Nolen of Franklin, North Carolina, telling him about the old Bald Mountain trees in his orchard. This was very surprising to …

Aunt Rachel

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According to Masters (2005), this variety performs well in the Piedmont of South Carolina. Originated as local apple in Chatham County, North Carolina. Fruit begins ripening early in the season and continues for two to three weeks. One of the best early season apples, Aunt …

Ashmead’s Kernel

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An apple of English origin and one of the best high-quality dessert apples available. It originated about 1700 in the gardens of Thomas Ashmead of Gloucester, England. Though not considered an attractive apple, the tremendous flavor more than compensates for its appearance. The flavor has …

Arkansas Sweet

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In 1905, Henry Grabin of Scott County, Arkansas sent the first samples of Arkansas Sweet to the USDA, thus bringing this fine apple to the public’s attention. It was believed to be a lost variety until 1993 when we discovered it still being grown by …

American Summer Pearmain

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Also known as: American Pearmain, Early Summer Pearmain, Watkin’s Early, Summer Pearmain A very old variety dating to 1816 or earlier. Apple is medium sized and somewhat oblong in shape. Skin is yellow striped with red. This is an early blooming variety and matures late …

American Beauty

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Also known as: Beauty of America, Sterling Beauty, Sterling Arose in Sterling, Massachusetts around the 1850’s, but the exact date of origin is unknown. It is a large, dark-red apple, sweet and aromatic with slightly chewy flesh. The flavor has often been described as vinous. …

Allum

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Also known as: Alum, Hallum, Rockingham Red Allum is thought to have originated in Rockingham County, North Carolina in the 1840’s. Favored for its fine storage qualities. Fruit is medium sized with deep red skin and tender, crisp and juicy white flesh. Flavor is rather …

Alexander

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Also known as: Emperor Alexander, Alexander the First, Beauty of Queen, English King, Grand Alexander, Kaiser Alexander, Aporta, Albertin Alexander is one of several hundred apples of Russian origin brought into this country in the early 1800’s in an attempt to find cold-hardy trees suitable …

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