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Gardening

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Sun Jun 14, 2015, 10:26 PM Jun 2015

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Jaw dropping list of apple varieties grown in Virginia estate in 1736 [View all]

Found a marvelous site of Gardening History.
Contains a list of all plants grown by Virginian William Byrd II's in 1736.
and this is just the apple trees:

Golden russet
Summer pearmain
Winter pearmain
Fall harvest apple
Winter queening
Lader-goller
Juntin' apple
Golden pippin
Carpendich
Red streaks
Jungferen
Long-stem apple
Red apple
Kabapffel
Green apple
French rennets

Very informative site ....http://americangardenhistory.blogspot.com/

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Jaw dropping list of apple varieties grown in Virginia estate in 1736 [View all] dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 OP

I love botanical history. Of the apples on that list, I've eaten and really enjoyed NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #1

Red Delicious are only good for Christmas displays--might as well have wax apples. NCarolinawoman Jun 2015 #2

but aren't they purty! I've not had a RD in decades. We in NC have a great apple expert NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #3

ohh..does have a web site or books or ...? dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #4

this looks like a good story on him NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #5

my friend who is an organic apple grower recommends mopinko Jun 2015 #7

The russet was my mom's favorite apple. She had a tree on the farm applegrove Jun 2015 #6

Question for a friend bigmonkey Jun 2015 #8

I would Google at this point dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #9

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