Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.]
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Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency Origin: Europe, Middle ages, May (Yellow very old apple. Valued for May- June, Early Ripening. 1300 Yellow Good June Soft. Very Tart. Cook x Medium Origin 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 Green- June- Crisp. Sweet to Eat, pies, Anna variety in Florida. <1959 Yellow-Red Very Good July mildly tart. sauce x x Heavy. Yellow-green. Eat, cook, 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 Somewhat tart. Grown around many firm/crisp. Tart Eat, old farms and valued for it's June- to somewhat sauce, Early Harvest early ripening time. <1800 Yellow Very good July tart. pies x x Very Heavy Yellow. Heavy producing, great tasting early apple. Very crisp with tart-sweet complex flavor. My favorite Good. eating early apple. Makes Considered many great tasting apples for Green- no spray June- Crisp. Tart to Pristine me every year. Heavy bearer. 1950 Yellow variety. July sweet. Eat, dry. x Very heavy. Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency 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 Can be Red Astrahan best of the early apples by susceptible to June- Eat, cook, Can be (Abe Lincoln) some. Great pie apple. <1800 Red Apple Scab. July Crisp, tart. pies. x x light. Origin 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 June- Crisp. Sweet to Dorsett early (2 yrs). Self-fertile. 1950 Yellow-red Good July mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Heavy Origin 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. (Carolina) Red Grows well on/in variety of soils June / Tender. Mild Eat, cook, June and climates. Heavy producer. <1800 Red Good July tart. sauce x x Very heavy. Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency Striped red. Crisp, tart but very flavorful for an early apple. Sold for many years in Striped June South by old Southern June- Crisp, tart, (Margaret) Nurseries. Striped red. July flavorful. Eat Origin 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 Jun- Crisp. Sweet- Hollow Log for eating and cooking. <1920 Yellow Good Aug spicy. Eat, cook. x x Heavy Origin Massachusetts. Adaptable to most growing conditions. Resistance to fire blight. Bright red summer Very Good. William's apple that resembles Red Fire Blight Firm. Mildly Favorite Delicious. 1750 Red resistant. July sweet. Eat, cook. x x Origin North Carolina. Ripens over several weeks in July. Wide angled limb structure making it easy to train. One Yellow-red Aunt Rachel of the best early apples. stripes. Good. July Mildly tart. Eat, cook. x x Medium Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency 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 Cook, apple for a Heritage Apple cider, Orchard. Origin: Possibly VA July- vinegar, Horse before 1763. <1763 yellow Good. Aug Soft. Very tart. eat x x x Heavy. Origin: Probably New Jersey origin. Very good eating early Crisp, juicy, Eating, American apple and apple sauce apple. Fair aromatic. cooking Summer Grew throughout South on (susceptible July- Mostly sweet Sauce, Pearmain variety of soils. 1817 Red-Green. Fire Blight) Aug to mild tart. dry. x x x Heavy Yellow with heavy red. Aromatic. Apples ripen over a long period of summer providing ripe apples potentially every day of August. A great eating Hackworth (All summer apple. Origin Yellow-heavy Jul- Summer) Alabama. red. Aug Aromatic. Eat. x Origin North Carolina. Good eating, cooking and dries <1945 Jul- Eat, cook, Mary Reid well. ? Red-green. Good Sept Tart. dry. x x x Medium Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency Origin 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 Crisp/crunchy Ginger Gold apples. 1960? Yellow Good. Aug Tart-Sweet Eat, cook. x x Heavy Very productive. Good pollinizer. Low chill apple. Not related to Red Delicious. Very good sweet-tart taste. Crisp. Sweet- Eat, cook, Mollies Delicious Very resistant to CAR. 1900? Red Good Aug tart. can. x x Heavy Origin Mississippi. One tree was said to produce more than 1 ton of apples every year. Great eating, drying, and cooking apple. Large Aug- fruit weighing well over 1 lb Sept in some cases. Fire blight (mid resistant when mature. Spur Yellow-red July Crisp. Mild Dry, Eat, Cauley bearer. <1860 striped. Good cook) sweet. Cooking x x x Very Heavy. Origin 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 Aug- Firm. Hewe's Crab Hewe's Crab for cider. <1717 Red Striped Good Sep Astringent. Cider x Heavy Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency Origin: 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 Aug- Crisp. Sweet Golden Delicious resistance. Just a great apple. 1914 Yellow Very good. Sept Spicy Eat, cook. x x Very Heavy Origin North Carolina. Wide adaptability even growing in coastal areas. Bears young. Highly thought of apple in the Eating, past that was almost lost as it Crispy. cooking is thought to have been only Aug- Sweet/tart/ drying, Hunge 1 tree in existence as of 1987. 1700 red Very good. Sept hint of wine. brandy. x x x Heavy. Origin 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 Eating, well in South but considered Aug/ Crisp. Sweet to cooking, Red Jonathon Heritage mid west apple. 1826 Bright Red Very Good Sept tart. cider. x x x Very heavy. Comparison Chart of Apple Varieties Grown [Reference: Old Southern Apples, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.] Description, History, and Origin Disease Flavor / Bearing Variety Orchard Opinion Date Apple Color Resist. Ripen Texture Uses Eat Keep Cook Dry Cider Tendency Origin Virginia. Very productive and disease resistant. Beautiful apples described as the prettiest apple by some. Excellent Aug- Crisp. Mild Red Rebel eating apple. 1850 Red Very good. Sept sweet. Eating x Very heavy. Origin South Carolina. Great tasting apple. Hint of banana Aug- Firm. Very Eat and Summer Banana flavor. 1890 Yellow Good. Sept sweet. cook. x x Crisp, tangy-sweet. Burgundy Aug- Crisp, tangy- Burgundy color. Great eating apple. Burgundy Sep sweet. Eat. x Red. Crisp, tart. Good for eating, cider, cooking. Very Aug- Eat, cider, King David disease resistant. Red. Very good. Sep Crisp, tart. cook. x x x Red-green. Crisp, juicy. Excellent for juice, cider, eating, sauce. One of the first apple trees grown in America Eat, juice, as early as 1767. 1535 origin Aug- cider, Summer Rambo France. 1535 Red-Green Sep Crisp, juicy. cook. x x x Origin North Carolina. Grown from seedling of Hall Apple. Per Calhoun on everybody's list of Top 10 greatest Southern apples.