Georgia Origin Apple list

Been thrashing through these cultivars for a while now. Weeding out duplicates, posers and confused names. I’m very convinced these are accurate and true cultivar claims:

Historically documented:

Bart***

Blairmont***

Candy Stripe***

Catawba{Not Catawba Beauty}

Clark***

Cranberry of North Georgia***

Blairmont***

Disharoon***

Forward Sour***

Granny Neighbors***

Holly***

{Wallace} Howard***

Jim Kell Thin Skin {Forts Prize}***

Kennedy***

Kimrome***

King Solomon***

Mrs.Bryan***

Old Fashioned Limbertwig***

Park’s Pippin***

Rabun Bald***{unlikely contestable, bred in Clayton county}

Red Detroit***

Shockley***

Spice of North Georgia***

Striped Sweeting***

Summer Row***

Tanyard Seedling***

Tar Button***

Terry Winter***

Yates***

Questionable:

Calvin{Sold a lot in Georgia but not from here}

Coffee{not-Coffey} Seedling

Dodge’s Crimson (Cumberland Black) {sold a lot but not from here}

Prince’s{definitely NY’s Early Harvest}

San Jacinto{Georgia nursery mistake never truly identified}

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Made a greatly revised and appended list last night and apparently I thought I posted it. Ugghhh!!!

Lets see latest list.

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I will re-type after lunch…lol

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Here is the rough note grabs:

Georgia Origin Apples:

Historically documented:

Admiral Schley??? Habersham county.1904uwc

Armstrong

Bart

Bedford ??? Fruitland 1868 crops aug.

Bill Thin Skin—Rabun Co., GA

Black Limbertwig

Blackshear ??? Fruitland 1868 crops-oct

Blairmont

Brilliant??? Habersham 1925UWC

Candy Stripe

Captain Moses???1850

Chattahoochee Greening ??? Fruitland 1868 crops-nov

Cheoee???1863

Chestoa ??? Fruitland 1868 crops-?

Cherokee Red???

Clark

Coffee{not-Coffey} Seedling

Coffman??? UWC 1904 Augusta

Cooper’s Early White ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crop-set/oct

Coopers Market{Etowah, Coopers Red}

Cooper’s Yellow

Cranberry of North Georgia

Cullawhee???1857

Currahee??? Habersham County 1908UWC

Dahlonega ??? Fruitland 1868 crops- oct

Defiance???1850

Disharoon

Duckett???1859

Elarkee???1857

Ellijay???1858

Floyd Keeper???

Forward Sour

Grand Sultan{ the English one. Not a synonym of Transparents, local reports say this is a very stripey apple. Out on a limb guess it came from the original Trustee’s of Oglethorpe?}

Gross??? 1855

Hackworth

Hamilton??? Fruitland 1868

Haywood???1890

Holly??? Fruitland 1868 Illinois trustees 1873 crops-nov/march

Horn??? Fruitland 1868

Indian Wild Crab???USDA watercolor Lavonia GA 1902

Jim Kell Thin Skin {Forts Prize}

Kennedy

Kimrome

King Solomon

Kittagessee???1851

Lady’s Blush ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-oct/nov

Lake??? Fruitland 1868

Large May??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-june

Lauren’s Greening??? Fruitland 1868

Lumsden??? Habersham 1915 uwc

Magnolia Gold

Mangum??? Fulton County 1904/1911uwc

Mary Ma{o}yer ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-oct

Mountain Belle???1871 Illinois trustees 1873 crops-nov/may

Mrs.Bryan

Murray???1852

Nantahalee??? Fruitland 1868

Nix{Nix Green}???1859

Nix’s Large Redstreak ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-Nov/may

Oconee Greening ??? USDA watercolor 1899 Jackson County crops oct/nov

Old Fashioned Limbertwig

Osborne’s Cheese ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-nov/feb

Osborne’s Pippin ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-nov/feb

Palmer{Pear}???1825

Park’s Pippin

Pride of Summer??? Union County 1911UWC

Queen ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-nov/april

Rabun Bald{unlikely contestable, bred in Clayton county}

Rare Ripe {of Maning Georgia} ??? Illinois trustees 1873

Red Detriot{Cherokee}

Red Indian Sweet 1858

Rhodes Orange??? Fruitland 1868

San Jacinto{Georgia nursery mistake never identified}

Santouchee ??? Fruitland 1868 crops-?

Sauta ???1850 Fruitland 1868 crops- sept/oct

Savanah Crab ??? Illinois trustees 1873

Shockley

Shockley-Cantrell

Shockley-Grizzle

Spice of North Georgia

Striped Sweeting

Summer Row

Toccoa ??? Fruitland 1868 crops-July

Tanyard Seedling

Tar Button

Taunton??? Fruitland 1868

Terry Winter

Wallace Howard

Waycross Red

White June??? Habersham County 1904uwc

Yahoola ??? Illinois trustees 1873 crops-sept/jan

Yates

Yopp{Yopp’s Favorite}??? Apples ofny 1873

Questionable:

Calvin{Sold a lot in Georgia but not from here}

Dodge’s Crimson (Cumberland Black) {sold a lot but not from here}

Equinetelee{is Buckingham}

Granny Neighbors{ Go home to Alabam Granny; grown here a lot but not from Georgia.}

Jennings {of Florida}

Jim Day

Poorhouse{is Gragg)

Prince’s{definitely NY’s Early Harvest

Tenderine{most likely from the Carolinas, but popular here)

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The Grand Sultan at Bernwode Nursery sounds like it.