I got a tiny bit of fruit this year. I don’t let my trees bear now until about year 4 so they develop a good structure. Made mistake of letting Liberty bear too soon and it stunted the tree. Ron Joyner at Big Horse Farm Orchard says his customers find limbertwigs in general to have good disease resistance. Black Limbertwig is especially noted for resistance, but not immunity. Tom Burford likes Brushy Mountain LT for its taste, keeping and reliable annual crop.
Here are some of the apple varieties grown on Md’s eastern shore in late 1800"s: Gresham winter apple, Lankford; Smith Cider; Limbertwig, Early Harvest; Early Ripe; York Striped; June; Summer Rose aka Striped June, Lippincott; Summer Queens; Gregson; Fallawater; King (aka Tompkins King); Spitzenberg; Smokehouse v. reliable; Jackson, Delaware Winter (Lawver); Browning; Bellflower; Maiden’s Blush; Carthouse aka Gilpin; Lawver aka Delaware Winter; Yellow Transparent; Gravenstein; Ralls Jannet high quality; Winesap; Tewksbury Winter Blush; Paragon (Black Twig); Magnum Bonum; Albemarle Pippin; Benoni;Jefferis; Kinnaird; Wine; Nero; Gano; Ardwell.
1914 apples included Grimes Golden; Matamuskett; King David; Akin; Domine; American Summer; Magnum Bonum “free of moth and fungus”; Buckingham subject to blight; Early Ripe; Smokehouse; Jefferis; Oliver; Wine; Stayman; Summer Rambo, Pine Stump, Nickajack.