May (Yellow June, Anna Early Harvest : Europe, Middle ages, very old apple. Valued for Early ing. 1300 Yellow Good Israel. Extremely young bearer. Good taste and stores well for an early apple. Good for deep South. Blooms Early. Planting Anna and Dorsett together works well. Gold Delicious parentage. Most popular Greenvariety in Florida. <1959 Yellow-Red Very Good Yellow-green. sauce. Possibly, 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. <1800 Yellow Very good May- June Soft. Very Tart. Cook x Medium June- July June- July Crisp. Sweet to mildly tart. Somewhat firm/crisp. Tart to somewhat tart. Eat, pies, sauce x x Heavy. Eat, sauce, pies x x Very Heavy Pristine 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. 1950 Green- Yellow Good. Considered no spray variety. June- July Crisp. Tart to sweet. Eat, dry. x Very heavy.
Red Astrahan (Abe Lincoln) 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. <1800 Red Can be susceptible to Apple Scab. June- July Crisp, tart. pies. x x Can be light. Dorsett (Carolina) Red June Bahamas. Good taste and stores well for early apple. Good for deep South. Blooms Early. Good pollinator. Descendant of Golden Delicious. Planting Anna and Dorsett together works well. Fruits extremely early (2 yrs). Self-fertile. 1950 Yellow-red Good 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 Good June- July June / July Crisp. Sweet to mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Heavy Tender. Mild tart. sauce x x Very heavy.
Striped June (Margaret) Striped red. Crisp, tart but very flavorful for an early apple. Sold for many years in South by old Southern Nurseries. Striped red. June- July Crisp, tart, flavorful. Eat Hollow Log William's Favorite North Carolina. Name derived from fact that it was seedling found growing near Hollow Logs. Late bloomer, heavy producer, strong grower. Crisp, aromatic, sweet-spicy. One nursery claimed that wherever known this apple is considered to be the best in cultivation. Good for eating and cooking. <1920 Yellow Good Massachusetts. Adaptable to most growing conditions. Resistance to fire blight. Bright red summer Very Good. apple that resembles Red Fire Blight Delicious. 1750 Red resistant. Jun- Aug July Crisp. Sweetspicy. Eat, cook. x x Heavy Firm. Mildly sweet. Eat, cook. x x 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. Good. July Mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Medium
Horse American Summer Pearmain Hackworth (All Summer) Mary Reid Old favorite. Many old farm sites have a Horse apple tree. Widely planted and depended on by Southerners in the past. Good pollinator. Unique taste. Versatile apple with many uses: eating, cooking, cider, vinegar. Must have apple for a Heritage Apple Orchard. : Possibly VA before 1763. <1763 yellow Good. : Probably New Jersey origin. Very good eating early apple and apple sauce apple. Grew throughout South on variety of soils. 1817 Red-Green. 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. Alabama. North Carolina. Good eating, cooking and dries well. Yellow-heavy red. <1945? Red-green. Good Fair (susceptible Fire Blight) July- Aug July- Aug Soft. Very tart. Crisp, juicy, aromatic. Mostly sweet to mild tart. Jul- Aug Aromatic. Eat. x Jul- Sept Tart. Cook, cider, vinegar, eat x x x Heavy. cooking Sauce, dry. x x x Heavy dry. x x x Medium
Ginger Gold Mollies Delicious Cauley Hewe's Crab Virginia. Known as the apple that hurricane Camille brought forth as it was found when cleaning up from the flooding. Parentage includes Golden Delicious and Albemarle. One of the mostly popular varieties in the US. Will last several weeks in refrigeration. Considered one of the best early season apples. 1960? Yellow Good. Aug Very productive. Good pollinizer. Low chill apple. Not related to Red Delicious. Very good sweet-tart taste. Crisp. Sweettart. Very resistant to CAR. 1900? Red Good Aug Mississippi. One tree was said to produce more than 1 ton of apples every year. Great eating, drying, and cooking apple. Large Augfruit weighing well over 1 lb Sept in some cases. Fire blight (mid resistant when mature. Spur Yellow-red July bearer. <1860 striped. Good cook) Virginia. Widely considered the best cider apple grown 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 Good Aug- Sep Crisp/crunchy Tart-Sweet Eat, cook. x x Heavy Crisp. Mild sweet. can. x x Heavy Dry, Eat, Cooking x x x Very Heavy. 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. Good disease resistance. Just a great apple. 1914 Yellow Very good. Aug- Sept Crisp. Sweet Spicy Eat, cook. x x Very Heavy 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 1987. 1700 red Very good. Aug- Sept Crispy. Sweet/tart/ hint of wine. cooking drying, brandy. x x x Heavy. Red Jonathon 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. 1826 Bright Red Very Good Aug/ Sept Crisp. Sweet to tart. cooking, cider. x x x Very heavy.
Red Rebel Summer Banana Virginia. Very productive and disease resistant. Beautiful apples described as the prettiest apple by some. Excellent eating apple. 1850 Red Very good. South Carolina. Great tasting apple. Hint of banana flavor. 1890 Yellow Good. Aug- Sept Aug- Sept Crisp. Mild sweet. Eating x Very heavy. Firm. Very sweet. Eat and cook. x x Burgundy King David Summer Rambo Crisp, tangy-sweet. Burgundy color. Great eating apple. Burgundy Red. Crisp, tart. Good for eating, cider, cooking. Very disease resistant. Red. Very good. Red-green. Crisp, juicy. Excellent for juice, cider, eating, sauce. One of the first apple trees grown in America as early as 1767. 1535 origin France. 1535 Red-Green Aug- Sep Aug- Sep Aug- Sep Crisp, tangysweet. Eat. x Crisp, tart. Crisp, juicy. Eat, cider, cook. x x x Eat, juice, cider, cook. x x x 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. 1828 Light red. Good (susceptible to CAR) Aug- Crisp. Mildly sweet. Eat, cook. x x Heavy.
Green-yellow with purple/blue stripes. Crisp, juicy, aromatic, mild tart-mild sweet. Widely grown in Greenyellow, Crisp, juicy, South the at one time. aromatic, mild Vigorous and productive tree. purple/blue tart - mild Carters Blue AL. stripes. Sep sweet. Eat. x Heavy. Tolman Sweet Yellow. Sweet. Cider apple. Yellow. Sep Cider. x Huntsman Yellow. Juicy, aromatic and flavorful. Widely grown in Missouri in 1800's. Very productive and good eating apple. 1800 Yellow. Sep Juicy, aromatic, flavorful. Eat. x Heavy. Pitmason Pineapple Guyandotte Pippin Dula Beauty Yellow. Tender, sweetpineapple flavor. Considered a fine eating apple. Yellow. Sep Red. Moderately crispcrunchy, tangy sweet. Red. Sep 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 seeds of Red late Limbertwig. 1800's Red Good Sept Tender, sweetpineapple flavor. Eat. x Crisp-crunchy, tangy-sweet. Eat. x Crisp. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. Eat. x Heavy
Empire Esopus Spitzenberg Gala Graniwinkle New York. Red DeliciousxMcIntosh parentage. resistant to Blight and Rust. Popular commercial variety. Good eating apple. Keeps well until March. 1945 Red Good. Sept Crisp. Sweet. : 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 cooking x x Heavy. Crisp. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. Eating. x Medium. : New Zealand. One of the most widely grown varieties. Ranked #2 most popular US apple in 2006. 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. 1930 Red Good. Sept Firm. Sweet. Eat. x Heavy : New Jersey. Named for the farmer that first cultivated it. Good for fresh eating, cider, and cooking. 1817 Red. Good Sept Crunchy. Sweet. cooking cider. x x x Heavy.
Grimes Golden Honeycrisp Jonafree : West Virginia. So great is this apple that a granite monument exists in West Virginia to honor it. Considered an all time American best. Good 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. 1790 Yellow Very Good. Sept : University of Minnesota. Parents include Keepsake and Golden Delicious. Keeps until April. Commercial variety. Great tasting apple. 1960 Red - yellow Good Sept Illinois. resistant, heavy bearer, vigorous. Keeps 10 weeks. 1965 Red Very good Sept Firm. Sweet, spicy. Crisp/crunchy Sweet. Crisp. Sweet to tart. Dry, Cider. x x x x x Heavy storage x x Eat, cider. x Heavy Liberty 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. 1955 Red Very Good/Best Sept Firm/crunchy. Sweet, winey flavor. Eat. Cider. Cooking x x x x Extremely heavy.
Limbertwig, Victoria Cripps Pink (Pink Lady) Sops of Wine Winesap, Stayman Jonagold Razor Russet American Beauty Tennessee. Weeping type. Rated as top apple for fresh eating. Stores 1-2 months. <1860 Red Very good. Sept Crisp. Sweet. 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. Good storage apple. 1973 Pink-green undertones. Good Sep : England. Grows well in South. Early apple. Annual bearer. <1855 Red-yellow. Good Sept Kansas. Another progeny of Winesap. Stayman came from seeds of the Winesap. Good tasting, disease resistant, keeps well. 1866 Red Very good. Sept Red-green. Crisp, sweet to tart. Winner of many taste contests. Red-green. Sep Golden. Crisp, rich sweet/spicey flavor. Very productive. Great eating apple. Golden Sep Yellow-red. Tender flesh, mild tart and aromatic. Yellow-red. Sep Crisp. Sweet - slightly tart. Firm. Aromatic, Mild sweet. Firm/crisp. Mildly tart, tangy. Crisp, sweet to tart. Eat. x cider, cook, sauces, pies. x x x Heavy. keeping, cooking, sauces. x x x Heavy. cider. x x x Heavy. cider, juice. x x x x Heavy. Crisp, rich sweet/spicey flavor. Eat. x Very heavy. Tender, mild tart, aromatic. Eat. x
Smokehouse Myers Royal Limbertwig Spigold Blacktwig : PA. Green/yellow striped red. Crisp, mild sweet to sweet-spicey. cooking. Grows well on clay Green soils. al tree grew /yellow, beside a smokehouse. <1836 striped red. Red to yellow. Crisp, sweetspicey. Great eating and cider apple. Largest Limbertwig Apple. Cades Cove. Crisp. Red-bronze. Very high quality and taste. Fair keeper. Red-bronze. : 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. 1800 Red-Green. Good. Sep Red to yellow. Good. Sep Crisp, mild sweet to sweetspicey. Eat, cook. x x Eat, cider. x x Crisp, sweetspicey. Sep- Crisp. Eat, cook. x x Sept- Firm, juicy. Mildly tart to mildly sweet. cooking, cider. x x x Medium
Buckingham Dixie Red Delight Kinnaird's Choice : 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? Alabama. Very popular in early 1900 sold widely. Sweet, crisp, good for fresh eating, good keeper. Probably originated from seed of a Yellow Transparent. Vigorous. Referencing Calhoun fire blight may be a problem. early 1900's Red Yellow-red striped. Good (susceptible to Cedar Apple Rust) Good (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. 1843 Red Very good. Sept- Sept- Sept- Crisp. Sprightly sub acid. cooking, drying, cider. x x x x Heavy 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. Good for cooking. 1949 Green Good 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. Good Sept- Crisp. Sweet. Eat. x Heavy. Roxbury Russet Allum (Rockingham Red) 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 Green-purplish blush. Crisp, mild tart. Highly valued for its keeping ability. Dull green / russeted. Greenpurple blush. Very Good. Sept/ Sept/ Firm/mild sweet. Crisp, mild tart. cider, cook. x x x Keeping, eating. x x Heavy. Annual.
White Winter Pearmain Ben Davis (Red Streak) Black Ben Davis (Gano) Virginia Beauty Mattamuskeet 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 tartsweet. 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. Crimson. Crisp, rich tangy mild sweet flavor. Stores well. Considered better eating apple than the Ben Davis. Greenyellow. Red. Virginia. Excellent eating apple. Grows well on poor soils including clay. One of the most beautiful apples. Adapted to much of the South. 1810 Red 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 Good (resistant to fire blight) Good (susceptible to CAR) Sept/ Sept/ Sept/ Sept/ Sept /later Crisp, mild sweet. Eating. x Very crisp, mild tart to mild sweet. Crisp, tangy mild sweet flavor. Mild sweet to sweet. Firm. Slightly tart improving in storage. Keep, cook, eat. x x x Keep, eat. x x cooking. x x Medium Keeper, cooking, eating. x x x Heavy
American Golden Russet King of Pippin Shockley New Jersey or New York. Good keeper. Delicious eating apple with complex sweet-tart flavor. Old American Apple. High sugar content makes it a good cider apple. Good drying apple. <1800 Gold/yellow. Almond like to vinous flavor. Good eating Russet- Green /Yellow Good (susceptible CAR) Sept- Nov and cider apple. Gold/yellow. 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. Red. Crispcrunchy/firm. Very sweet. Almond like vinous flavor. Eat x Crisp, mild sweet to sweet. Cider, Eat, dry. x x x x x keep, cider, dry. x x x x x Moderate. Tip bearer. Domine (Winter Rambo) Kidd's Orange Bentley Sweet Arkansas Sweet Red. Firm, mild tart-sweet. Widely grown in the South before 1900. Very heavy bearer and very rapid grower. <1900 Red. Yellow-red. Firm, complexsweet. Considered a great eating apple. New Zealand. Yellow-red Red. Crisp, sweet. Incredible storage apple keeping until May. Good eating and Firm, mild tartsweet. Eat. x Firm, complexsweet. Eat x storage apple. Red Crisp, sweet. Eat, keep. x x Dark red. Crisp-crunchy, sweet. Fair keeper and good Crisp-crunchy, eating apple. Dark red. sweet. Eat. x Heavy bearer.
Yellow/pale red. Crisp/mild Doctor Matthews sweet. Great eating apple. Sweet Coppin Yellow, pale red. Pale yellow. Soft, pure sweet. Cider apple. Pale yellow. Crisp, mild sweet. Eat. x Soft, pure sweet. Cider. x Virginia Gold Enterprise Goldrush Johnson Keeper Joseph Apple 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. 1976 Yellow 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. 1999 Red 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. 1999 Green- Yellow Good (susceptible CAR) Very Good - never any issues at TCO. Good (susceptible CAR) Crisp. Tart to mild sweet. Crisp/Firm. Sweet to mildly tart and mildly spicy. Firm/Crisp. Tart - sweet. North Carolina. Good eating and storage apple. red Very good. Crisp. Tart. Yugoslavia. Beautiful red disease resistant apple. Good for eating, cooking. Firm. Mild Stores well. Red Very Good. sweet. cooking, cider. x x x Eat, storage, cooking. x x x Heavy. cider, keep. x x x Very heavy. Eating. Storage. x x cook. x x
Georgia. Very resistant to diseases. Prized for cider and apple butter. Good keeper. This is a great Crisp. Sweet to Limbertwig, Black tasting apple. <1914 Red-Green. Very good. tart. One of best apples for fresh Limbertwig, Red eating, apple butter, and Royal cider. Keeps well. Red Very good. Crisp. Sweet. Limbertwig, Royal Limbertwig, Swiss Limbertwig, Brushy Mountain Very good Limbertwig variety. Grows well in South. Sold widely by old Southern nurseries. Good for apple butter. Good eating. 1860 Green-Red Very Good Firm. Sweet. Kentucky? Maroon colored. Grown by Swiss settlers. Very good taste, extremely crisp. North Carolina. Great eating and keeping apple. Will keep until June. A commercial variety at one time. Eat, cider, cook, keeping. x x x Heavy. cooking, cider. x x x apple butter. x x Heavy. Maroongreen. Very good. Crisp. Sweet. Eating. x Heavy. unkno wn Red-yellow. Very good. Crisp. Juicy unique aromatic flavor. Eat, keep. x x Heavy
Newtown Pippin (Albemarle Pippin) Ralls Janet Bramley's Seedling 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 Good Virginia. Good 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 Good susceptible to fire blight. (susceptible Yellow-red fruit color. <1790 Yellow-red. fire blight) Green-red-striped. Tangy, sharp flavor. Once considered world's best cooking apple. Great for cider. Green-red striped. - Nov Crisp. Aromatic, mildly sweet. Eat, storage, cook, cider x x x x Medium Crisp. Mild sweet. Eat, keep. x x Very heavy. Tangy, sharp flavor. cider. x x x
Winesap, Old Fashion Limbertwig, Kentucky Limbertwig, Levering Granny Smith 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. 1800 Dark red Kentucky. Excellent eating and keeper. Limbertwig taste. Weeping. unkno wn Green/yello w-red. Very good - no issues at TCO. Very good. Southwest Virginia. Smokey Limbertwig flavor. Weeping habit. Excellent keeper and cider apple. Red-yellow. Very good. Australia. Pollinator. Very heavy bearer. Good keeper. Fresh grown much better than store bought. 1868 Green Good - Nov - Nov - Nov - Nov Firm. Sweet. Firm, Crisp. Very firm, crunchy. Smokey Limbertwig flavor. Crisp. Tartsweet. cider, keeper. x x x Heavy. cooking, keeping. x x x Heavy Eat, cider, keeper. x x x Sauce, juice, eat, storage, cook. x x x Heavy.
Hall Terry Winter Winesap, Virginia 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 Good Georgia. Adapted to all growing conditions including Southern conditions. One of the best keeping apples. Unique nutty flavor. Very good - no issues at TOC. <1868 Red Virginia. Sport of Winesap that is darker red. See above description for Old Fashioned Winesap. 1922 Red Very good. /Nov - Nov - Nov Tender. Mild sweet. Crisp. Sweet. Firm. Sweet with a twang. storage. x x Heavy Keep, Eating x x Heavy. cider, keeper. x x x Heavy. York Imperial 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 - Dec Crisp, sprightly subacid. sauce. x x
Arkansas Black Arkansas. Hardy, vigorous, heavy bearer. resistant (especially Cedar Apple Rust) (susceptible to Apple Scab). One of the best keepers. Thought to be Winesap seedling. Rock-hard at harvest, softening and improving flavor in storage. Another must have Heritage Apple. 1870 Dark red with Black tendency. Very Good - never any issues at TCO. (others note susceptible to Apple Scab) Nov Crisp / Firm / moderately juicy. Mildly sweet to mildly tart. keep, juice. x x x Heavy Limbertwig, Red (Old Fashioned) North Georgia. One of oldest limbertwigs. Weeping habit. Excellent keeper. Good for pies, jelly and cider. Very heavy bearer and very good disease resistance. 1882 Very good - Redgreen/yellow issues at TCO. never any Nov Firm, crisp. Sweet. Pies, jelly, cider, eating, keeping. x x x x Very Heavy. Yates Keener Georgia. Good 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. 1844 Red Very Good - never any issues at TCO. Nov North Carolina. One of the latest apples. Good eating, cooking, drying and keeper. Apples can hang on the tree until December. <1880 Russet. Very good. Dec -. Tender. Sweet. Crisp. Mildly sweet. Keep, Eat, cider. x x x Heavy. storage. x x x x Very Heavy