Three Creek Orchards Current Inventory as of September 1, 2018 (earliest to latest ripening)

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1 Pristine M106 3 June-July Yellow. Heavy producing, great tasting early apple. Very crisp with tart-sweet complex flavor. My favorite eating early apple. Makes many great tasting apples for me every year. Heavy bearer. Yellow. Heavy producing, great tasting early apple. Very crisp with tart-sweet complex flavor. My favorite eating early apple. Makes many great tasting apples for me every year. Pristine M111 3 June-July Heavy bearer. Early Harvest M111 6 June-July Red Astrahan (Abe Lincoln) M June-July Striped June (Margaret) M111 2 June-July Williams Favorite (Southern Queen, Early Red) M111 1 July Aunt Rachel M July-Aug Horse M7 9 July-Aug Horse M106 July-Aug Horse (Old Fashion Horse, Yellow Horse, Green Horse) M July-Aug Hackworth (All Summer) M111 4 July-Aug American Summer Pearmain M111 2 July-Aug Hunge M106 5 July-Sep Hunge M July-Sep Mary Reid M111 1 July-Sep Yellow-green. Eat, cook, sauce. Earliest Apple in inventory. Heavy bearer, good disease resistance, grows well in many climates including the South on many soil types. Juicy, crisp, somewhat tart to tart. Grown around many old farms and valued for it's early ripening time. Origin: Before Red. Crisp, tart. Eating and cooking. Old Southern nurseries sold more of this apple than any with exception of Winesap. The most widely distributed apple in the world in the 1900's. Was said to the best of the early apples by some. Great pie apple. Origin: Russia before Striped red. Crisp, tart but very flavorful for an early apple. Sold for many years in South by old Southern Nurseries. Bright red apple. Firm, mildly sweet-mildly tart. Adaptable to most growing conditions. Widely grown in the South in the early 1900's. Very good disease resistance. Origin: MA, Yellow-red striped. Mildly tart. Makes big apples. Tree grows very well in our area. Good for eating and cooking. Gives you apples in the mid summer time frame. The trees are very strong, disease resistant, and grow fast. Origin: NC. Green-yellow. Good to eat (tart), dry, and cider. Nearly all old farms had a horse apple. It was used for mid summer apples. Grows fast and produces big crops. Need one of these just on principle of our great-grandparents probably had one. Origin: Possibly Virginia prior to Green-yellow. Good to eat (tart), dry, and cider. Nearly all old farms had a horse apple. It was used for mid summer apples. Grows fast and produces big crops. Need one of these just on principle of our great-grandparents probably had one. Origin: Possibly Virginia prior to Green-yellow. Good to eat (tart), dry, and cider. Nearly all old farms had a horse apple. It was used for mid summer apples. Grows fast and produces big crops. Need one of these just on principle of our great-grandparents probably had one. Origin: Possibly Virginia prior to Yellow with heavy red. Aromatic. Apples ripen over a long period of summer providing ripe apples potentially every day of August. A great eating summer apple. Origin Alabama. Red-green. Crisp. Mostly sweet to mild tart. Heavy bearer. Grew throughout South on most soil types. Considered one of the best early eating apples. Origin: NJ, Red. Eating, cider, cooking, disease resistant, heavy bearer. Very strong tree. Origin: North Carolina, Red. Eating, cider, cooking, disease resistant, heavy bearer. Very strong tree. Origin: North Carolina, Red-green. Tart. Good for cooking, eating, drying. Origin: NC before 1945?

2 Mollies M Aug Ginger Gold M111 1 Aug Golden Delicious M Aug-Sep Red. Crisp, sweet-tart. Very good taste. Very heavy bearer and very good disease resistance. Origin: 1900? Yellow-gold. Crisp-crunchy, tart-sweet. Good eating and cooking apple. Origin: VA, 1960? Gold. The trees I have are extremely heavy producers and grow very well in the South. Nothing like a store bought apple. The best apple I ever tasted. Crisp, sweet with a hint of spice. The father of many other great apples. Origin: West Virginia, 1914? Summer Banana M111 4 Aug-Sep Yellow. Firm. Very sweet. Eat and cook. Great tasting apple. Hint of banana aroma. Origin: SC, Hewe's Crab M111 2 Aug-Sep Red striped. Widely considered the best cider apple grown in the South. Heavy bearer. Origin: VA, Burgundy M111 Aug-Sep Crisp, tangy-sweet. Burgundy color. Great eating apple. King David M111 3 Aug-Sep Summer Rambo M111 2 Aug-Sep Magnum Bonum M Sep Honey Crisp M111 Sep Red. Crisp, tart. Good for eating, cider, cooking. Very disease resistant. Red-green. Crisp, juicy. Excellent for juice, cider, eating, sauce. One of the first apple trees grown in America as early as origin France. Light red. Crisp. Mildly sweet-mildly tart. Sets standard as fall apple. Top 10 old timey Southern Apple. Grows on many soil types. Origin: North Carolina, Red-yellow. Crisp, sweet. Excellent fresh eating apple. Availability in supermarkets growing rapidly. Good disease resistance. Considered good eating apple. Green-yellow with purple/blue stripes. Crisp, juicy, aromatic, mild tart-mild sweet. Widely grown in South the at one Carters Blue M111 1 Sep time. Vigorous and productive tree. Origin AL. Tolman Sweet M111 2 Sep Yellow. Sweet. Cider apple. Huntsman M111 3 Sep Yellow. Juicy, aromatic and flavorful. Widely grown in Missouri in 1800's. Very productive and good eating apple. Pitmason Pineapple M111 Sep Yellow. Tender, sweet-pineapple flavor. Considered a fine eating apple. Guyandotte Pippin M111 2 Sep Red. Moderately crisp-crunchy, tangy sweet. Graniwinkle M111 5 Sep Red. Crunchy, sweet. Good eating, cooking, and cider apple. Heavy bearer. Origin: NJ, Sops of Wine M111 Sep Red-yellow. Firm, aromatic, mildly sweet-mildly tart. Good for eating, cooking, and cider. Heavy bearer. Origin: England, before Liberty M106 7 Sep Liberty M7 5 Sep Red. Modern disease resistant apple. Bears very heavy, apples taste good, good for cooking. Very easy to grow and grows well here. Crisp-winey flavor. Makes large quantities of apples for me every year. Origin: New York, 1955? Red. Modern disease resistant apple. Bears very heavy, apples taste good, good for cooking. Very easy to grow and grows well here. Crisp-winey flavor. Makes large quantities of apples for me every year. Origin: New York, 1955?

3 Liberty M Sep Cripps Pink (tree that fruits Pink Lady) M Sep Victoria Limbertwig M Sep Grimes Golden M Sep Jonafree M111 3 Sep Gala M Sep Dula Beauty M111 2 Sep Jonagold M111 8 Sep Esopus Spitzenberg M111 3 Sep Razor Russet M111 4 Sep Red. Modern disease resistant apple. Bears very heavy, apples taste good, good for cooking. Very easy to grow and grows well here. Crisp-winey flavor. Makes large quantities of apples for me every year. Origin: New York, 1955? This is the tree that makes Pink Lady Apples. Said to need long growing Season. Nurseries growing this variety in Alabama. Bears heavily and tasting great. Trees are growing very well for me. Origin: Australia, 1973? Red. Crisp, sweet. Eat, cook, cider, sauces, keeping and pies. Considered one of the best eating Limbertwig varieties. Will keep until spring. Origin: Tennessee, Yellow-gold. Great tasting, heavy producer, good pollinator, grows well here. Crisp, sweet-spicey flavor. Good for fresh eating, juice, cider, and sauce. So great is this apple that a granite was erected at its origin to honor it. Origin: West Virginia, Red, Crisp, mild tart. Good taste, disease resistant, very heavy bearer. Red-yellow. Firm, sweet. #2 most widely grown apple in the world. Grows very well in our area. Fruits early. The taste of a fresh Gala is much better than the store bought apples. Origin: New Zealand, Red. Crisp, juicy, sweet to mild tart. Good eating apple. Adaptable to all growing conditions Mountains to Coast. Very heavy bearer. Strong and vigorous. Origin: NC, 1800's. Red-green. Crisp, sweet to tart. Winner of many taste contests. Red. Crisp. Mildly tart to mildly sweet. Has won many apple taste contests. Said to be Thomas Jefferson's favorite. Origin: NY, before Golden. Crisp, rich sweet/spicey flavor. Very productive. Great eating apple. American Beauty M111 Sep Yellow-red. Tender flesh, mild tart and aromatic. Smokehouse M111 1 Sep Myers Royal Limbertwig M111 3 Sep Honeycrisp M111 1 Sep Green/yellow striped red. Crisp, mild sweet to sweet-spicey. Eating, cooking. Grows well on clay soils. Original tree grew beside a smokehouse. Origin: PA, before Red to yellow. Crisp, sweet-spicey. Great eating and cider apple. Largest Limbertwig Apple. Origin Cades Cove. Red-yellow. Great tasting commercial variety sold at most markets. Crisp, crunchy, sweet. Spigold M111 1 Sep-Oct Crisp. Red-bronze. Very high quality and taste. Fair keeper. Kidd's Orange M111 Oct Royal Limbertwig M7 5 Oct Royal Limbertwig M Oct Bentley Sweet M111 1 Oct Arkansas Sweet M111 Oct Yellow-red. Firm, complex-sweet. Considered a great eating apple. New Zealand. Yellow, red. Tender, mild tart-mild sweet. Great eating apple. Grows well in warm climates. Widely sold by Southern nurseries. Origin: Yellow, red. Tender, mild tart-mild sweet. Great eating apple. Grows well in warm climates. Widely sold by Southern nurseries. Origin: Red. Crisp, sweet. Incredible storage apple keeping until May. Good eating and storage apple. Dark red. Crisp-crunchy, sweet. Fair keeper and good eating apple.

4 Doctor Matthews M111 3 Oct Yellow/pale red. Crisp/mild sweet. Great eating apple. Blacktwig M111 3 Sep-Oct Kinnaird's Choice M Sep-Oct Roxbury Russet M Sep-Oct Virginia Beauty M111 Sep-Oct Dixie Red Delight M111 Sep-Oct Buckingham (Queen) M111 2 Sep-Oct Red Delicious (Hawkeye) M111 1 Sep-Oct Allum (Rockingham Red) M111 1 Sep-Oct White Winter Pearmain M111 3 Sep-Oct Ben Davis (Red Streak) M111 2 Sep-Oct Red-green. Crisp, mild tart to mild sweet. Great tasting apple, makes cider, cooks well. Many people's favorite eating apple. Apples grow very well in our area making a very strong tree. A great all purpose apple. The trees are really strong and grow fast. AR or TN, Red. Crisp, mild tart-sweet. Grows well in South, heavy bearer, good eating, cooking apple, excellent keeper. Once said to the best apple grown in Tennessee. Great pie apple. Origin: Tennessee, Dull green-russeted. Firm, mild tart. Eating, cooking and cider. First apple brought to America by Pilgrims. Grows well in South and was widely grown there. Considered great cider apple and is very productive. Origin: Europe, introduced by Pilgrims in Roxbury, MA, Red. Mild tart to sweet. Eating and cooking. Grows well in South and on poor soils including clays. Excellent eating apple. Considered one of the most beautiful apples. Origin: Virginia, Red. Sweet, crisp, good for fresh eating. Vigorous. Origin Alabama, early 1900's. Yellow, dark red stripes. Crisp, tart. Good for eating, cooking, drying, cider. Planted for 200 years all over the South as settlers carried the trees with them. Calhoun calls it the quintessential Southern apple. One of the great Southern apples. Perhaps VA prior to Red. Crisp, mild sweet. Good eating apple. This is the original Red Delicious from which the famous store variety came. A fresh Hawkeye's flavor will likely taste much better than you expect. Origin: Iowa, Green-purplish blush. Crisp, mild tart. Highly valued for its keeping ability. Green-yellow. Crisp, mild sweet. Called the best tasting apple by some in old reviews. Widely sold by Old Southern nurseries. Red. Very crisp, mild tart-sweet. Cook, store, and eat. 1800's most important commercial variety in the US. Keeps extremely well and is very tough. Said to keep until May. Grows rapidly. Adapts to many climates and soils. Black Ben Davis (Gano) M111 4 Sep-Oct Crimson. Crisp, rich tangy mild sweet flavor. Stores well. Considered better eating apple than the Ben Davis. Green. Crisp, sweet-tart-spicey. Eating, keeps well, and Mutzu M111 2 Sep-Oct cooking. Great tasting. Heavy bearer. American Golden Russet (Golden Russet) M111 4 Sep-Nov Gold-russet. Crisp-crunchy, very sweet. Great eating, cooking, keeping, cider, drying apple. One of the great Old American apples. Origin: NJ or NY prior to Domine (Winter Rambo) M111 1 Oct Red. Firm, mild tart-sweet. Widely grown in the South before Very heavy bearer and very rapid grower. King of Pippin M111 Oct Gold/yellow. Almond like to vinous flavor. Good eating and cider apple. Johnson Keeper M111 1 Oct Red. Crisp, tart. Good eating and storage apple. Shockley M111 3 Oct Red. Crisp. Mild sweet to sweet. Great all purpose apple: eat, cook, keep, cider, dry. Legendary keeper. Heavy bearer. An apple settlers planted widely and depended on. One of the great Southern apples. Virginia Gold M111 2 Oct Yellow-red. Crisp. Sweet to tart distinctive taste. Great tasting. Good keeper. Good for pies. Joseph M111 2 Oct Red, disease resistant, stores well.

5 Newtown Pippin (Albemarle Pippin) M Oct Ralls Janet (Neverfail) M Oct Swiss Limbertwig M Oct Yellow. Crisp, aromatic, mildly sweet. Considered one of the best Old Southern Apples but is known to be more susceptible to some diseases. Eating and storage (can keep until Mar). Considered one of the best eating apples. An important export to England in the 1700's. Yellow-red. Crisp, mild sweet. Eating and keeping. Grows well clay soils. Blooms late to avoid frosts. Said to bear heavy. Origin: VA, before Maroon-green. Crisp, sweet. Great tasting, heavy bearer. Grown by early Swiss settlers. Origin: KY? Black Limbertwig M Oct Red-green. Crisp, sweet to mild tart. Eat, keep, cider, apple butter. One of my favorite eating apples. Very disease resistant. Heavy bearer. Origin: GA, before Brushy Mountain Limbertwig M Oct Red-yellow. Crisp, unique aromatic flavor. Great eating and keeping apple. Said to keep until June. Commercial variety at one time. Enterprise M Oct Red. Crisp, sweet to mild tart to mild spicey. Eat, keep, cook. Great tasting, extremely disease resistant, heavy bearer, very good keeper. Grows very well in the South. Makes apples for me every year. Goldrush M Oct Green-yellow. Crisp, tart to sweet. Heavy producer, great tasting, great pollinator, baking, cider, keeps 8 mos in refrigeration. Disease resistant. Red Royal Limbertwig M Oct Red. Crisp, mild sweet. Eat, cook, cider. Very good eating apple. Sweet Coppin M111 1 Oct Pale yellow. Soft, pure sweet. Cider apple. Granny Smith M Oct-Nov Green. Very heavy bearer. Grows well here. Fresh much better than store bought. Widely sold in markets. Crisp and tart. Australia, Red. Mild sweet with hints of vanilla. Eat and keep. Extremely rare apple. Said to have hint of vanilla. Hall was Hall (Hall's Red) M Oct-Nov considered one of the best Southern apples in that it combined unique traits of growing in the deep South, excellent keeping, and great eating. Said to keep until April or May. Origin: NC, before Kentucky Limbertwig M111 2 Oct-Nov Green-yellow. Crisp. Eat, cook, keep. Said to be great tasting and heavy bearer. Origin: KY. Old Fashioned Winesap M106 3 Oct-Nov stored well. Old Fashioned Winesap M7 2 Oct-Nov stored well. Old Fashioned Winesap M Oct-Nov Terry Winter (Terry) M111 5 Oct-Nov stored well. Origin: NJ, before Red. Crisp, mild sweet. Eating, cider and keeping. Grows well in South, productive. Unique nutty flavor. One of the best keeping apples. Heavy bearing. Origin: GA, before 1868.

6 Virginia Winesap M111 Oct-Nov Bramley's Seedling M111 Oct-Nov York Imperial M111 4 Oct-Dec Mattamuskeet (Skeet) M111 3 Oct-later Arkansas Black M Nov Arkansas Black M106 Nov Red Limbertwig (Old Fashioned Limbertwig) M Nov Yates (Red Warrior) M Nov Keener Seedling (Rusty Coat) M Dec-Oct stored well. Redder sport of the great Old Fashion Winesap. Green-red-striped. Tangy, sharp flavor. Once considered world's best cooking apple. Great for cider. Red. Crisp, sprightly subacid. Important commercial variety for many years. Most apple sauce still comes from this apple. Excellent eating, cooking, and sauce apple. Good keeper. Red. Good eating, legendary keeper, considered by old timers to be the best winter apple for the low country. Said to grow even in coastal plains. Apples can hang on tree until November. Have been found on ground in May-June in good condition. Origin: NC, before Dark red to Black. Crisp to hard, mild sweet to mild tart. Heavy bearer, Disease resistant, One of the best keepers. Keeps 8 mos in refrigeration. Can hang on the tree until late November. It grows well and will make a lot of apples. Another must have Southern apple. Origin: Arkansas, Dark red to Black. Crisp to hard, mild sweet to mild tart. Heavy bearer, Disease resistant, One of the best keepers. Keeps 8 mos in refrigeration. Can hang on the tree until late November. It grows well and will make a lot of apples. Another must have Southern apple. Origin: Arkansas, Red-green/yellow. Crisp, sweet. Great all purpose apple. Eat, cook, keep, dry, cider. Very heavy bearer, disease resistant, great apple tree. Makes many apples for me every year. A must have tree. Member of the Limbertwig family of which many originated in or around the Smokey Mountains. Limbertwigs were widely planted and depended on by early settlers. Origin: GA, before Red. Tender and sweet. Good for eating, keeping and cider. Heavy bearer. Old favorite that grows coast to coast, easy to grow, and will keep until April. Keeps with little care and can found on the ground in good condition past December. Considered one of the great Southern apples. Origin GA, Yellow-russet. Crisp, mildly sweet. Good eating, cooking, drying, storing. Very disease resistant. Said to be common for some hang on tree until December. Heavy bearer. Known as a great storage apple keeping until spring. Dries good, keeps good, good eating, good pie apple, good for cooking. Origin,: NC prior to [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.]