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1 May Middle ages, very old apple. Valued for Early ing Yellow May- June Soft. Very Tart. Cook x Medium Anna Israel. Extremely young bearer. taste and stores well for an early apple. for deep South. Blooms Early. Planting Anna and Dorsett together works well. Gold Delicious parentage. Most popular variety in Florida. <1959 Green-Yellow- Red Very June- July Crisp. Sweet to mildly tart. Eat, pies, sauce x x Heavy. Early Harvest Pristine New York. Grows on all soils. High yield, early bearing, grows fast. sauce, and cooking apple. <1800 Yellow Very good United States. Early disease resistant variety. Early bearer. Heavy bearing. A very good tasting early apple. pollinator Green-Yellow. (scabgood. mildew, fire blight, CAR - some susceptibility June- July June- July Somewhat firm/crisp. Tart. Eat, sauce x x Very Heavy Crisp. Tart to sweet. Eat. x Very heavy. Aunt Rachel North Carolina. s over several weeks in July. Wide angled limb structure making it easy to train. One of the best early apples. Yellow-red stripes.. July Mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Medium

2 Dorsett (Carolina) Red June Bahamas. taste and stores well for early apple. for deep South. Blooms Early. pollinator. Descendant of Golden Delicious. Planting Anna and Dorsett together works well. Fruits extremely early (2 yrs). Self-fertile Yellow-red South Carolina. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. It was the early apple Southerners depended on for several reasons including: good eating for an early apple, ripens over a month period, keeps several weeks (good for an early apple), relatively resistant to diseases (exception - apple scab, CAR). Has unique quality of occasionally blooming a second time and producing a second harvest of apples in the fall. Grows well on/in variety of soils and climates. Heavy producer. <1800 Red June- July June / July Crisp. Sweet to mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Heavy Tender. Mild tart. Eat, cook,sauc e x x Very heavy. Hollow Log North Carolina. Name derived from fact that it was seedling found growing near Hollow Logs. Late bloomer, heavy producer, strong grower. Crisp, aromatic, sweetspicy. One nursery claimed that wherever known this apple is considered to be the best is cultivation. for eating and cooking. <1920 Yellow Jun- Aug Crisp. Sweetspicy. Eat, cook. x x Heavy

3 William's Favorite Massachusetts. Adaptable to most growing conditions. Resistance to fire blight. Bright red summer apple that resembles Red Delicious Red Very. Fire Blight resistant. July Firm. Mildly sweet. Eat, cook. x x Horse Old favorite. Many old farm sites have a Horse apple tree. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. pollinator. Unique taste. Versatile apple with many uses: eating, cooking, cider, vinegar. Must have apple for a Heritage Apple Orchard yellow. July- Aug Soft. Very tart. Cook, cider, vinegar, eat x x Heavy. American Summer Pearmain : Probably New Jersey origin. Very good eating early apple and apple sauce apple. Grew throughout South on variety of soils Red-Green. Fair (susceptible Fire Blight) July- Aug Crisp, juicy, aromatic. Mostly sweet to mild tart. cooking Sauce, dry. x x x Heavy Mary Reid Ginger Gold Mollies Delicious North Carolina. eating, cooking and dries well. <1945? Red-green. Jul- Sept Virginia. Known as the apple that hurricane Camille brought Very productive. forth as it was found 1960? Yellow. Aug pollinizer. Low chill apple. Not related to Red Delicious. Very 1900? Red Aug Tart. Eat, cook, dry. x x x Medium Crisp/crunchy Tart-Sweet Eat, cook. x x Heavy Crisp. Sweettart. Eat, cook, can. x x Heavy

4 Cauley Mississippi. One tree was said to produce more than 1 ton of apples every year. Great eating, drying, and cooking apple. Large fruit weighing well over 1 lb in some cases. Fire blight resistant when mature. Spur bearer. <1860 Yellow-red striped. Aug- Sept (mid July cook) Crisp. Mild sweet. Eat, Cooking x x x Very Heavy. Hewe's Crab Virginia. Widely considered the best cider apple gown in the South yielding a dry cider of unsurpassed flavor that will keep all winter. Thomas Jefferson grew and used Hewe's Crab for cider. <1717 Red Striped Aug- Sep Firm. Astringent. Cider x Heavy Golden Delicious : West Virginia. Great tasting, great pollinator, very heavy bearer. Must have apple for any Orchard. The taste of this apple picked at just the right time (a little early is better) is hard to match. It tastes nothing like a purchased version of the apple. Thought to be a seedling of Grimes Golden. Progenitor of many other great apples. disease resistance. Just a great apple Yellow Very good. Aug- Sept Crisp. Sweet Spicy Eat, cook. x x Very Heavy

5 Hunge North Carolina. Wide adaptability even growing in coastal areas. Bears young. Highly thought of apple in the past that was almost lost as it is thought to have been only 1 tree in existence as of red Very good. Aug- Sept Crispy. Sweet/tart/ hint of wine. cooking drying, brandy. x x Heavy. Red Jonathon Red Rebel Summer Banana Michigan? Bright red, crisp, tart but well-balanced. Great eating apple. Also good for ciders, juices, sauces, pies, and freezing. Partially self fertile. Widely adaptable to soil types. Zones 4-8. Grows well in South but considered Heritage mid west apple Bright Red Very Virginia. Very productive and disease resistant. Beautiful apples described as the prettiest apple by some. Excellent eating apple Red Very good. South Carolina. Great tasting apple. Hint of banana flavor Yellow. Aug/ Sept Aug- Sept Aug- Sept Crisp. Sweet to tart. cooking x x x x Very heavy. Crisp. Mild sweet. Eating x Very heavy. Firm. Very sweet. Eat and cook. x x

6 Magnum Bonum North Carolina. Grown from seedling of Hall Apple. Per Calhoun on everybody's list of Top 10 greatest Southern apples. Sets standard as a fall apple. Widely adaptable to growing condition. Commercial apple at one time. Susceptible to CAR. Excellent dessert apple, good eating apple, good keeper Light red. (susceptible to Aug- CAR) Crisp. Mildly sweet. Eat, cook. x x Heavy. Dula Beauty North Carolina. ated from Limbertwig seeds. Adapted to all growing conditions from mountains to coast, strong and vigorous. Bears heavily. Large fruit. Possibly same as Coffey Seedling which originated from late seeds of Red Limbertwig. 1800's Red Sept Crisp. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. Eat. x Heavy Empire New York. Red DeliciousxMcIntosh parentage. resistant to Blight and Rust. Popular commercial variety. eating apple. Keeps well until March Red. Sept Crisp. Sweet. cooking x x Heavy. Esopus Spitzenberg : New York. Thomas Jefferson's favorite apple. Outstanding eating apple but susceptible to apple scab, collar rot, fire blight. It won many apple tasting contests. <1800 Red Poor. Sept Crisp. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. Eating. x Medium.

7 Gala : New Zealand. One of the most widely grown varieties. Ranked #2 most popular US apple in Can be grown in South (600 chill hours). Cross between Kidd's Orange and Golden Delicious. Fresh Gala apples are much better than the store bought version Red. Sept Firm. Sweet. Eat. x Heavy Graniwinkle : New Jersey. Named for the farmer that first cultivated it. for fresh eating, cider, and cooking Red. Sept Crunchy. Sweet. cooking cider. x x x Heavy. Grimes Golden Honeycrisp : West Virginia. So great is this apple that a granite monument exists in West Virginia to honor it. Considered an all time American best. keeper, heavy bearer, good disease resistance, tastes great. Widely grown. Thought to be a progenitor of the great Golden Delicious. A must have variety. Self-fertile. Excellent pollinizer. Many say the Grimes has a better flavor than the Golden Del Yellow Very. Sept : University of Minnesota. Parents include Keepsake and Golden Delicious. Keeps until April. Commercial variety. Great tasting apple Red - yellow Sept Firm. Sweet, spicy. Crisp/crunchy Sweet. Eat, cook, Dry, Cider. x x x x Heavy storage x x

8 Jonafree Illinois. resistant, heavy bearer, vigorous. Keeps 10 weeks Red Very good Sept Crisp. Sweet to tart. Eat, cider. x Heavy Liberty Victoria New York. Heavy bearer, great tasting, good pollinator. Many say this is the most trouble free variety. A truly great apple and tree. Stores well. At TCO Liberty has produced year after year without spraying Red Very /Best Sept Firm/crunchy. Sweet, winey flavor. Tennessee. Weeping type. Rated as top apple for fresh eating. Stores 1-2 months. <1860 Red Very good. Sept Crisp. Sweet. Eat. Cider. Cooking x x x Extremely heavy. cider, cook, sauces, pies. x x x Heavy. Cripps Pink (Pink Lady) Australia. Cripps Pink is an apple cultivar from which apples meeting certain standards can be sold as Pink Lady. Parents are Lady Williams x Golden Delicious. Pink Lady is trademarked Apple from a Cripps Pink apple tree variety. Cripps Pink requires a very long growing season. storage apple Pink-green undertones. Sep Crisp. Sweet - slightly tart. keeping, cooking, sauces. x x Heavy. Smokehouse Pennsylvania. Grows well on clays. Excellent cooking and good eating apple. Very flavorful. Susceptible to Cedar Apple Rust and Fire Blight. Can be bi-ennial bearer. al tree grew beside a Smokehouse. <1836 Green/Yellow striped red. Sept Firm/crisp. Mild sweet to sweet-spicy. Eat, cook. x x

9 Sops of Wine : England. Grows well in South. Early apple. Annual bearer. <1855 Red-yellow. Sept Firm. Aromatic, Mild Eat, cook, sweet. cider. x x x Heavy. Winesap, Stayman Kansas. Another progeny of Winesap. Stayman came from seeds of the Winesap. tasting, disease resistant, keeps well Red Very good. Sept Firm/crisp. Mildly tart, tangy. Eat, cook, cider, juice. x x x Heavy. Blacktwig : Arkansas or Tennessee. Much controversy surrounded origin. Most likely another Winesap seedling. Grows well on any soil type. Very good fresh eating apple. Keeps well. Resistant to fire blight and Cedar Apple Rust. Very good all purpose apple for eating, drying, cooking or cider Red-Green.. Sept- Firm, juicy. Mildly tart to mildly sweet. cooking, cider. x x x Medium Buckingham : uncertain (likely Virginia). Planted for two hundred years all over the South. Settlers spread the tree widely due to it's good traits and it's tendency to sprout. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. A great all purpose apple used for eating, cooking, drying and cider. Calhoun calls it the "quintessential southern apple". 1777? Yellow-red striped. (susceptible to Cedar Apple Sept- Rust) Crisp. Sprightly sub acid. cooking, drying, cider. x x x x Heavy

10 Dixie Red Delight Kinnaird's Choice Alabama. Very popular in early 1900 sold widely. Sweet, crisp, good for fresh eating, good keeper. Probably originated fron seed of a Yellow Transparent. Vigorous. Referencing Calhoun fire blight early may be a problem. 1900's Red (possibly susceptible fire blight) Tennessee. Grows in South well. LimbertwigxWinesap cross. TN. Dessert and cider apple. A pie bakers favorite. Said to be the finest apple grown in Tennessee at one time Red Very good. Sept- Sept- Crisp. Mildly Sweet. Eating x Heavy. Firm. Mildly tart to sweet. cooking. x x x Heavy Mutzu Japan. Cross Indo and Golden Delicious. Bears abundant crops. Great tasting, spicy. Japan. Keeps well. for cooking Green Sept- Crisp. Sweettart. Spicy. cook. x Heavy. Red Delicious (Hawkeye) Iowa. The progenitor of the well known Red Delicious. The Hawkeye delicious is a seedling from a Yellow Bellflower. It is immensely more flavorful than the store bought sport. Because of its beauty, fine eating qualities, hardiness and productiveness, this variety displaced almost all the other commercial apples. <1870 Red. Sept- Crisp. Sweet. Eat. x Heavy.

11 Roxbury Russet Massachusetts. A russet apple. Widely grown across the South. Widely known as a great Cider apple. The oldest American Apple said to have arrived with the Pilgrims in Roxbury, Massachusetts. <1649 Dull green / russeted. Very. Sept/ Firm/mild sweet. cider, cook. x x x Heavy. Annual. Virginia Beauty Virginia. Excellent eating apple. Grows well on poor soils including clay. One of the most beautiful apples. Adapted to much of the South Red (resistant to fire blight) Sept/ Mild sweet to sweet. cooking. x x Medium Mattamuskeet North Carolina. Legendary keeper that is said to have been stored outdoors and last until May or June. Considered the best winter apple for the low county. May hang on tree till November. <1888 Red (susceptible to Sept/l CAR) ater Firm. Slightly tart improving in storage. Keeper, cooking, eating. x x x Heavy American Golden Russet New Jersey or New York. keeper. Delicious eating apple with complex sweet-tart flavor. Old American Apple. High sugar content makes it a good cider apple. drying apple. <1800 Russet-Green /Yellow (susceptible CAR) Sept- Nov Crispcrunchy/firm. Very sweet. Cider, Eat, dry. x x x x x Moderate. Tip bearer. Virginia Gold Virginia. Cross Albemarle Pippin and Golden Delicious (two all time greats). Store for a few months for peak distinctive flavor. Great for pies. Becoming popular rapidly because of distinctive taste Yellow (susceptible CAR) Crisp. Tart to mild sweet. cooking, cider. x x x

12 Enterprise Great tasting extremely disease resistant apple. Parents include McIntosh, Golden Delicious, and Rome Beauty. Store 3-6 months in refrigeration. Has been called a disease resistant Winesap type apple Red Very - never any issues at TCO. Crisp/Firm. Sweet to mildly tart and mildly spicy. Eat, storage, cooking. x x x Heavy. Goldrush Pollinator. Modern disease resistant variety. resistant (scab and mildew). Tart tang sweetens with age. Fruits early. Keep 8 months in refrigeration. Derived from Golden Delicious Green-Yellow (susceptible CAR) Firm/Crisp. Tart - sweet. cider. x x x Very heavy. Johnson Keeper Joseph Apple Black Red Royal Royal North Carolina. eating and storage apple. red Very good. Crisp. Tart. Yugoslavia. Beautiful red disease resistant apple. for eating, cooking. Firm. Mild Stores well. Red Very. sweet. Georgia. Very resistant to diseases. Prized for cider and apple butter. keeper. This is a great tasting apple. <1914 Red-Green. Very good. Crisp. Sweet to tart. One of best apples for fresh eating, apple butter, and cider. Keeps well. Red Very good. Crisp. Sweet. Very good Limbertwig variety. Grows well in South. Sold widely by old Southern nurseries. for apple butter. eating Green-Red Very Firm. Sweet. Eating. Storage. x x cook. x x Eat, cider, cook, keeping. x x x Heavy. cooking, cider. x x x x apple butter. x x Heavy.

13 Swiss Kentucky? Maroon colored. Grown by Swiss settlers. Very good taste, extremely crisp. Maroongreen. Very good. Crisp. Sweet. Eating. x Heavy. Brushy Mountain North Carolina. Great eating and keeping apple. Will keep until June. A commercial variety at one time. unkno wn Red-yellow. Very good. ob er Crisp. Juicy unique aromatic flavor. Eat, keep. x x Heavy Newtown Pippin (Albemarle Pippin) England. Calhoun calls this one of the truly great Southern apples. A very interesting history has this apple being sent to Benjamin Franklin while in London. England developed such a taste for the apple that it became an important export. Susceptible to fire blight and bitter rot. Requires high fertility soil to do well. Taste improves greatly in storage. Great keeper. Keeps until March in a cellar. <1666 Yellow Crisp. Aromatic, mildly sweet. Eat, storage, cook, cider x x x x Medium Ralls Janet Shockley Virginia. eating, good keeper. Said to do well on clay soils. Bears heavily every year. Often called neverfail due to its blooming late and escaping late frosts.. A parent of Fuji. It is susceptible to fire blight. Yellow-red fruit color. <1790 Yellow-red. (susceptible fire blight) Georgia. Legendary keeper said to keep until late summer. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. <1852 Red. ob er Crisp. Mild sweet. Eat, keep. x x Very heavy. Crisp. Mild sweet to sweet. Storage. x x x x x Heavy. Annual.

14 Winesap, Old Fashion Kentucky Levering ated New Jersey. A favorite Old Fashion apple. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. Excellent keeper. Excellent eating. Excellent cider. Excellent storage. Grows in all soils including clays. Best Winesap keeper. Important commercial variety through the 19th century. Flavor improves in storage. A must have apple for any orchard. Not a pollinator Dark red Kentucky. Excellent eating and keeper. Limbertwig taste. Weeping. unkno wn Very good - no issues at TCO. Green/yellowred. Very good. Southwest Virginia. Smokey Limbertwig flavor. Weeping habit. Excellent keeper and cider apple. Red-yellow. Very good. - Nov - Nov - Nov Firm. Sweet. Firm, Crisp. Very firm, crunchy. Smokey Limbertwig flavor. cider, keeper. x x x Heavy. cooking, keeping. x x x Heavy Eat, cider, keeper. x x x Granny Smith Australia. Pollinator. Very heavy bearer. keeper. Fresh grown much better than store bought Green - Nov Crisp. Tartsweet. Sauce, juice, eat, storage, cook. x x x Heavy.

15 Hall North Carolina. Said to be progenitor of the Magnum Bonum. An excellent keeper keeping until May. Great tasting apple. Both the tree and fruit are small. The combination of good fresh eating and great keeper are a rare combination in a southern apple that made it very popular at one time. <1800 Red /N ov Tender. Mild sweet. storage. x x Heavy Terry Winter Winesap, Virginia Arkansas Black Georgia. Adapted to all growing conditions including Southern conditions. One of the best keeping apples. Unique nutty flavor. <1868 Red Virginia. Sport of Winesap that is darker red. See above description for Old Very good - no issues at TOC. Fashioned Winesap Red Very good. Arkansas. Hardy, vigorous, heavy bearer. resistant (especially Dark red with Cedar Apple Rust) (susceptible Black to Apple Scab). One of the 1870 tendency. - Nov Crisp. Sweet. Eating x x Heavy. - Nov Very - never any issues at TCO. (others note susceptible to Nov Firm. Sweet with a twang. Crisp/Firm/mo derately juicy. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. cider, keeper. x x x Heavy. Eat, cook, keep, juice. x x x Heavy Red (Old Fashioned) North Georgia. One of oldest limbertwigs. Weeping habit. Excellent keeper. for pies, jelly and cider. Very heavy bearer and very good disease resistance Redgreen/yellow Very good - never any issues at TCO. Nov Firm, crisp. Sweet. Pies, jelly, cider, eating, keeping. x x x x Very Heavy.

16 Yates Keener Georgia. pollinator. Small, old favorite, heavy bearer, easy to grow, good wildlife apple, very good keeper. Grows all regions mountains to coast. Bears young. Will keep to April. Another must have old apple variety Red Very - never any issues at TCO. North Carolina. One of the latest apples. eating, cooking, drying and keeper. Apples can hang on the tree until December. <1880 Russet. Very good. Nov Dec -. Tender. Sweet. Eat, cider. x x x Heavy. Crisp. Mildly sweet. Eat, cook, storage. x x x x Very Heavy