All Varieties

  • Peck’s Pleasant

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    Also known as: Peck, Dutch Greening, Watts Apple, Waltz Apple This is a very fine dessert apple originating in Rhode Island in the early 1800’s. Fruit is medium to large with a variable shape, often with a distinctive furrow on one side. Skin is mostly …

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    Posted on: 07-3-2013

  • Parmer

    Parmer

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    Also known as: Parmar, Yellow Flat An apple of Virginia origin arising sometime in the 18th century, but never very well known or widely distributed. It is quite an attractive yellow apple popular for making a thick, dark yellow applesauce. It was also very popular …

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    Posted on: 07-3-2013

  • Parks' Pippin

    Parks’ Pippin

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    Also known as: Gilmer Pippin This apple originated about 1850 on the farm of Monroe Parks of North Georgia and has been a very popular variety in that state for years. It is most valued for its cooking qualities, being too tart for fresh eating …

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  • Ortley

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    Also known as: Ortley Pippin, White Bellflower, Woolman’s Long Pippin, Detroit, Greasy Pippin, Hollow Core Pippin, Ohio Favorite, Yellow Pippin, Crane’s Pippin, White Detroit, Willow Leaf Pippin, Woodward’s Pippin, Green Bellflower, Marrow Pippin, White Pippin, Melting Pippin, Inman, Spice Pippin, Cleopatra, Tom Woodward Pippin, Davis, …

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    Posted on: 07-3-2013

  • Ophir

    Ophir

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    This fine old North Carolina apple originated in the Ophir (pronounced OH-fur) community near the Uwharrie Mountains in the north-central Piedmont region of the state. According to Calhoun (2011), this information was provided to him in 1987 by Mrs. Nellie Williams of Kittrell, NC, whose …

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  • Oliver

    Oliver

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    Also known as: Senator, Oliver’s Red, All-over Red In the early 1800’s, John Oliver of Washington County, Arkansas raised an apple tree on his farm that produced a striking red apple with large, distinctive dots, or lenticels, over the skin’s surface. It became a very …

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    Posted on: 07-3-2013

  • Notley P. No. 1

    Notley P. No. 1

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    Also known as: Knotty Pea, Notly Pippin No. 1, Knotley Pea, Notnepee(?) A very large fall apple supposedly originating in North Carolina according to an 1863 nursery catalog from Pennsylvania. It was described in an 1855 North Carolina catalog as, “one of the best large …

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  • Northern Spy

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    Also known as: Northern Spice, Spy, Northern Pie Apple, Red Spy, Red Northern Spy A superb apple of Northern heritage which attains its greatest potential as a mountain grown apple. When grown in warmer areas it lacks the crispness and flavor of fruit grown in …

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  • North Carolina Keeper

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    Also known as: Carolina Keeper North Carolina Keeper is believed to come out of Davidson County, North Carolina, in the late 1800’s. There is some confusion as to its heritage with some early sources saying it is a seedling of Gilpin, a very similar variety. …

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  • Norfolk Beefing

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    Also known as: Norfolk Beaufin, Catshead Beaufin, Norfolk Bearer, Ramsden, Read’s Baker, Red Beefing, Taliesman, Winter Beefing Norfolk Beefing is an old English apple variety used primarily for cooking and drying. It was first described in this country in the 1840’s but was not listed …

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  • Nickajack

    Nickajack

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    Also known as: Summerour, Winter Horse, Jackson Red, Missouri Red, Aberdeen, Howard, Mobbs, World’s Wonder Believed to have originated in the 1800’s with the Cherokee Indians on Nickajack Creek, Macon County, North Carolina. Although not noted for its fresh eating qualities, Nickajack was favored for …

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  • Newtown Pippin

    Newtown Pippin

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    Also known as: Albemarle Pippin, Green Winter Pippin, New York Pippin, Virginia Pippin A venerable old variety originating in New York in the early 1700’s. It is generally believed the apple arose on the estate of Gershom Moore in what is now known as the …

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    Posted on: 07-3-2013

  • Munson’s Sweet

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    Also known as: Orange Sweet, Ray Apple, Northern Sweet, Meacham Sweet, Rag Apple, Northern Sweet Munson’s Sweet is a prolific apple originating in Massachusetts before 1849 and was once widely available through several Southern nurseries, but is considered a rare variety today. It is an …

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

  • Mrs. Bryan

    Mrs. Bryan

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    Also known as: Bryan, Lady Bryan(?) This apple arose in the mid-1800’s from seeds planted by Robert Boatman of Walker County, Georgia. It was named for Mrs. J. W. Bryan of Lookout Mountain, Georgia, who was a noted member of the Georgia Horticultural Society. The …

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  • Moyers Spice

    Moyers Spice

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    A hardy and vigorous variety from the collection of the late Henry Morton of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This medium-sized, aromatic red apple has yellowish-white flesh with a spicy subacid to sweet flavor. Ripens in mid-July and is not a good keeper. Print

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

  • Mountain Rose

    Mountain Rose

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    Not to be mistaken for the patented, red-fleshed Mountain Rose apple grown in the Mt. Hood River Valley of Oregon. Our Mountain Rose was discovered in 1985 as a wild seedling tree here in Ashe County. The Ashe County Mountain Rose is an exceptionally attractive …

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  • Mountain Boomer

    Mountain Boomer

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    Also known as: Mount Boomer, Seek No Further First described in 1900 by the Virginia State Horticultural Society. Not widely distributed, the apple was most popular in Tennessee and Kentucky in the early part of the twentieth century. Fruit is large to very large with …

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

  • Mother

    Mother

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    Also known as: Gardener’s Apple, American Mother, Queen Anne, Mother of American Mother originated in the nineteenth century on the farm of Gen. Stephen P. Gardner of Bolton, Massachusetts. It is well adapted to the South and was very well known in central North Carolina. …

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

  • Mongolian

    Mongolian

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    In the early 1900’s, a small nursery known as Brushy Mountain Nursery, located in the North Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, sold an apple tree with the unusual name of Mongolian. It was a large to very large flat apple with very waxy …

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

  • Missouri Pippin

    Missouri Pippin

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    Also known as: Missouri Keeper, Missouri Orange, Stone’s Eureka In 1839, Brinkley Hornsby first settled in Johnson County, Missouri, bringing with him apple seeds which he planted immediately on his new homestead. One of these seeds produced a seedling tree which first fruited in 1854. …

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    Posted on: 07-2-2013

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