Mid Season Apples

  • Mountain Boomer

    Mountain Boomer

    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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  • Mother

    Mother

    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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  • Mongolian

    Mongolian

    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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  • Maiden's Blush

    Maiden’s Blush

    Also known as: Lady Blush, Red Cheek, Maiden Blush, Vestal, Summer Maiden’s Blush, Uchella Originated in Burlington, New Jersey in 1817 and first named by Samuel Allinson. It is a very lovely apple with a sharp, tangy flavor well suited for cooking. When the fruit …

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  • Lugar Red

    Lugar Red

    Old Southern variety originating in Craig County, Virginia. Raised for many years in the Sinking Creek area of Craig County and one of the many apples in the collection of the late Holland Caldwell. Medium size fruit with yellow skin covered with red stripes and …

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  • Lowell

    Also known as: Greasy Pippin, Orange, Lowell Pippin, Queen Anne, Rissley, Tallow Pippin, Michigan Pippin, Golden Pippin(?) Lowell is a rather large American apple with an obscure history. It was once widely grown in the North, but never became very popular in the South. The …

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  • Summer Limbertwig

    Summer Limbertwig

    Also known as: Weeping Limbertwig, Summer Yellow Limbertwig Summer Limbertwig originated in Greensboro, NC, and first came to the public’s attention in 1855. The tree has a true weeping growth habit and produces a very beautiful fruit. The medium-sized apple has pale yellow skin overlaid …

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  • Lewis Green

    Lewis Green

    First mentioned in 1877 at a meeting of the American Pomological Society and, according to a 1904 description, originated in Watauga County, North Carolina. Some orchards in Madison County, NC, still raise this apple. Fruit is large with greenish-yellow skin sometimes with a slight red …

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  • Lacy

    Listed in two Virginia nursery catalogs in the late 1800’s, Lacy is believed to be of North Carolina origin. It is described as good for fresh eating, canning, cooking, and drying. Fruit is medium or smaller with greenish-yellow skin blushed and striped with red on …

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  • King Solomon

    King Solomon

    Also known as: Solomon An old Georgia apple originating before the Civil War and once sold by the Forest Nursery of Fairview, Kentucky. Other details of its history are unknown. The apple is medium-sized with yellowish-orange skin with stripes and splashes of red. The coarse …

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