A Fruitful Heritage

Fruit Varieties

Many varieties of fruits are named in the Fruitful Heritage image collection. Listed below are all of the named varieties under the fruit heading. After the variety is a letter corresponding to a source where more information is available which are listed at the bottom of this webpage. If the variety has no letter, it indicates that no information on it is currently available or identified; it is possibly spelled incorrectly in the image collection, the variety is now known by a different common name, or it is just very obscure.

APPLES

Arkansas Black - A, C, (Image)
Beach - A
Belleflower - A
Ben Davis - C, (Image)
Black Annette - A, B
Black Twig (Mammoth Black Twig or Malinda?)
Carolina Red June
Clestria
Coffelt - A
Duchess
Early Red Winter
Elkhorn
Ensee
Esopus - A, (Image)
Flora Bell
Gano - A, C, (Image)
Golden Delicious
Golden Russet - A, (Image)
Hastings
Hastings Red
Highfill
Huntsman Hyslop Crab - B, (Image)
Ingram - A, C
Isherwood
Jonathan - A, C, (Image)
Klondyke
Langford - A
Lansingburg - A
Lily of Kent - A
Logan
Lowell - A, B, C, (Image)
Loy

Magnum
Maxon's Early
McAfee - A
Minkler - A, C
Missouri Pippin - A, C
Nixonite
Northwest Greening Twig (Northwestern Greening?, A Image)
Oliver - A, (Image)
Paragon - A, (Image)
Pennock - A, (Image)
Pewankee - A , (Image)
Pippin - A - (Missouri Pippin?)
Poorhouse
Rome Beauty - A, C
Rough and Ready
Shannon - A, B, C
Shockley
Springdale
Stayman Winesap- A, C, (Image)
Stevenson - D
Suril
Tillman
Weisner
White Pippin - A, C
Whitney Crab
Willow Twig - A
Wisconsin Russet
Winesap - A, C
Yellow Transparent - A, B, C
York Imperial - A, C

PEARS

Bartlett - E, (Image)
Garber - E

Kieffer - E (Image)

GRAPES

Champion - F
Concord - F
Ericson - F Herbert - F
Hermito - F

Hicks - F
Moore's Early - F
President - F
Stark's Delicious

PEACHES

Elberta - G

Salway (or Salwey) - G

PLUMS

Omaha - H

CHERRIES

Montmorency

Early Richmond

SOURCES OF MORE INFORMATION

The Apples of New York, Volume 1, by S.A. Beach, N.O. Booth, and O.M. Taylor. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1905.
The Apples of New York, Volume 2, by S.A. Beach, N.O. Booth, and O.M. Taylor. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1905.
The Apple: What it is: How to grow it: Its commercial and economic importance: How to utilize it, compiled and revised by the Kansas State Horticultural Society, William H. Barnes, secretary. Topeka, Kansas: [J.S. Parks, printer], 1898.
Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties, compiled by Reid M. Brooks and H. P. Olmo. [Davis, Calif.?: s.n.], 1997.
The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, 1921.
The Grapes of New York by U. P. Hedrick. Albany, N.Y.: J.B. Lyon company, state printers, 1908.
The Peaches of New York by U. P. Hedrick. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, printers, 1917.
The Plums of New York by U. P. Hedrick. Albany, N.Y.: J.B. Lyon company, state printers, 1911.
The Cherries of New York by U. P. Hedrick. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Co., state printers, 1915.

This project was funded by an LSTA Digital Imaging Grant, through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Missouri State Library, 2003-2004. For other Missouri Digital Image Collections, visit Virtually Missouri.