Baking Apples

  • Horse

    Horse

    Also known as: Yellow Horse, Old Fashion Horse, Carolina Horse, Summer Horse, Green Horse, McBath, Oldfield Horse, Improved Horse, Trippes Horse, Hoss Horse was probably the most popular apple grown for home use in the South. Believed by some to have originated in Nash County, …

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  • Hoover

    Hoover

    Also known as: Black Coal, Black Hoover, Thunderbolt, Wattauga, Baltimore Red, Thunderbolt Hoover is a large, beautiful dark-red apple believed to have originated in Edisto, SC in the early to mid 1800’s. A dependable variety which leafs out very late in the Spring, thus avoiding …

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  • Honey Sweet

    Honey Sweet

    Also known as: Honey Cider In the mid-1970’s famed apple collector, Elwood Fisher, discovered this apple growing in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Fruit is medium-sized with pale yellow skin flushed with light pink. The flesh is firm, juicy and very sweet. The tree has …

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  • Hollow Log

    This flavorful and colorful apple originated in Rutherford County, North Carolina at an unknown date. Its name derives from the fact that it was discovered growing as a wild seedling near an old hollow log. It is a very late bloomer thus escaping most late …

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  • Hog Sweet

    Hog Sweet

    Also known as: Hog Island Sweet, Hog Apple, Hog Sweeting, Sweet Pippin, Van Kleck’s Sweet This is an old New York apple which originated on Hog Island, now known as Syosset Island, located near Long Island. Described as a very sweet apple and a very …

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  • Hightop Sweet

    Hightop Sweet

    Also known as: High Top Sweeting, Summer Sweet, Sweet June, Early Sweet, Spence’s Early, Yellow Sweet June, Summer Sweet, Summer Sweeting, Summer Sweet of Ohio, Sweet June of Illinois This is a very old American apple having originated in the Plymouth Colony in the 1600’s …

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  • Higdon

    Higdon

    This apple was discovered around 1980 growing on the property of a Mr. Higdon near Millport, AL. Described as resembling Red Delicious and making a wonderful apple cider. Fruit is medium in size with smooth yellow skin overlaid with streaks and stripes of red and …

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  • Hewe's Crab

    Hewe’s Crab

    Also known as: Virginia Crab, Cider Crab, Hughe’s Virginia Crab, Red Hughes Hewe’s Crab is absolutely one of the best cider crab apples available today. The exact date of origin is unclear, but trees of Hewe’s Crab were discovered in Virginia in 1817 which were …

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  • Henry Clay

    This apple originated before 1890 at the hands of W. H. Knight of Hopkins County, Kentucky. In 1910, it was purchased by Stark Bro’s Nursery and sold as an early season yellow apple rivaling the better-known Yellow Transparent. Fruit is medium sized, conical or lopsided …

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  • Hawley

    Also known as: Douse, Dowse, Dows, Howley Hawley originated around 1750 on the farm of Matthew Hawley of New Canaan, New York. It was raised from seed originally brought from Milford, Connecticut. When grown in the North, it is a high quality apple, but when …

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