Fresh Eating Apples

  • Oliver

    Oliver

    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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  • Notley P. No. 1

    Notley P. No. 1

    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

    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

    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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  • Nickajack

    Nickajack

    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

    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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  • Munson’s Sweet

    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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  • Mrs. Bryan

    Mrs. Bryan

    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

    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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  • Mountain Rose

    Mountain Rose

    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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