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Cammy Watts. John Bunker (born 1950 or 1951) is an American orchardist, pomologist, and "apple explorer". [1][2][3] An expert on American apples and their history, [4][5][6] he is the founder of the mail-order nursery Fedco Trees, a division of the cooperative Fedco Seeds. [7] For most of his life, he has worked to preserve rare old apple ...
Roxbury Russet. The ' Roxbury Russet' is an apple cultivar, believed to be the oldest apple cultivar bred in the United States, having first been discovered and named in the mid-17th century in the former Town of Roxbury, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony southwest of (now part of) Boston. [1] It is known by several other names including ...
Newtown, New York. The Newtown Pippin, also known as Albemarle Pippin, is an American apple that originated in the late 17th or early 18th century and is still cultivated on a small scale. [1] At one time, there were two very similar apple cultivars known as the 'Yellow Newtown' ('Albermarle Pippin') and 'Green Newtown' ('Brooke Pippin'), one ...
Big things are happening at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, including growing a historic apple variety dating back to the 1500's. ... it's safe to say heirloom apples grown today ...
The Winesap fruit is small to medium with a deep, cherry red skin and a crisp, yellow flesh. It has moderate disease resistance including to mildew and blooms a few days later than other late varieties. It is all-purpose, being used for fresh eating, cider, apple butter, and pies. [2][3] It is similar to cultivars ' Arkansas Black ', 'Arkansas ...
Geneva, New York, United States, 1898. Cortland is a cultivar of apple developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, United States in 1898. [1] The apple was named after nearby Cortland County, New York. It is among the fifteen most popular in the United States [2] and Canada.
A new limited edition New England tree, the Heirloom Apple Tree, has hit the FarmVille Market. This limited edition Tree can be purchased for 10,000 coins during the next 10 days only. This non ...
Tolman Sweet. The Tolman Sweet is a cultivar of apple with a butter yellow color, with faint russet dots [1] and a "suture line" along one side of the fruit from top to bottom. [2] Eye small, closed. Core heart-shaped, axile, closed. Flesh yellowish to white, breaking, firm, very sweet, rich, rather dry, moderately, juicy.