Henry Morton's 1986/87 Apple Catalog

General Fruit Growing
#22

@BenHawggard You’ve got some very rare ones there! Glad to see you keeping them alive. Where are you?

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#23

Zone 7 northeast Arkansas. My dad grafted brushy mountain, caney fork, Victoria this year and Myers royal last year.

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#24

Hey Charles, good to see you over here. :slight_smile: Yes I’d definitely be interested in those Limbertwig scions next spring. Hopefully I’ll have something to trade that your interested in.

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#25

Awesome I’ll make sure to get them to you. We also have coffelt beauty which goes by the new improved limbertwig that you may not have greyphase.

#26

Hey Charles, I have Dula Beauty which is also called Coffey Seedling. The Big Horse Creek website says that’s its a Limbertwig seedling. Could this be the variety your talking about?

#27

Nope coffelt beauty is one of our Arkansas apples cross of been Davis and red limbertwig. Supposed to keep better then red limbertwig but taste better then been Davis.

#28

Amother name for Coffelt Beauty/Improved Limbertwig is Wandering Spy, it was one of Wyatt Coffelt’s apples. Please overlook my mistake on it being a Highfill apple, I’m working with my nightshift brain today.

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#29

OK Charles, you can definitely throw a piece of that in with the other scion next spring. :grin:

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#30

We will get you covered

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#31

We want future updates on how these apples perform/taste for you all.

#32

Matt I’ll do my best we got close to 85 varieties now but they are all on b118 and most are on anatovonka so it may be a few years.

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#33

Thanks to those involved in getting this catalog and then providing it here for us to review and enjoy. I had been trying to find Henry Morton’s catalog for years.
A big THANK YOU!!!

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#34

That Smithsonian apple article is the exact one that got me interested in starting my orchard. I had an orchard years ago at another house. Got disinterested in the varieties I saw at the local orchards. After reading this article I started looking for heirloom apples. It opened up a whole new world of tastes and varieties.

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#35

Any updates on some of these more obscure limbertwig varieties? Anyone had the meyers green? Thinking of adding it. Thanks.

#36

I have it but wont have fruit till next year (Hopefully). Ben Lamond was exceptionally tasty and i should have a Rose limbertwig to taste next year also. Carolina LT is still a couple years out.

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#37

Thanks for making this resource available!!!

#38

Any updates/photos on Meyers Green or Carolina?

#39

Greetings, how would I be able to get my hands on the Coffelt Beauty/Improved Limbertwig/Wandering Spy?

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#40

You might ask Ron Joyner at Big Horse Creek Nursery, NC or David Vernon at Century Farm Nursery, NC

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