Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

1. Wellington Bloomless

This is a strange looking variety of unknown origin, probably in the US at least 100 years ago. The flowers have no petals, hence the name. A good fresh eating apple.

2. Winter Banana

An excellent desert apple from Cass County, Indiana, 1876

3. Rusty Coat

An old southern variety, Rusty Coat is thought to have originated in Lincoln County, NC. around 1880.

4. Tolman Sweet

This is a sweet apple with soft flesh discovered in the 1700s in Massachusetts.

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That third Apple (the Rusty Coat) looks very similar to several of the Russet varieties, that may have originated from ancient English heirloom apples. Russet apples were also introduced and popularly grown in New England in the early to mid 1800’s, so that may have been the original stock for this variety from the Carolina’s.

My favourite Apple is the Egremont Russet, still a very popular apple variety grown in Southern England:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egremont_Russet

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Very good. I am familiar with Egremont Russet. I have seen about 20 russet varieties, I guess.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Great set and lighting.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Very nice Set!!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice apple shots.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Well done, Mike. Do you know what variety of apple it was that Eve picked off the tree? I'm only asking so that I don't make the same mistake. 😁

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Believe it or not, scholars have actually debated that issue. The Bible doesn't specify what kind of fruit, it just says they ate the forbidden fruit. Latin for fruit is "pom" so in Latin "they ate the pom," meaning they ate the fruit. I early texts the fruit was thought to be figs or grapes or pomegranate. All of those were more likely to be found in the Holy Land than apples. It has only been recently that apple varieties were developed by Israeli horticulturists that could thrive in that climate.

By the 12th Century the word "pom" had come to mean apple in French, rather than just any fruit, so French translations of Genesis started saying "they ate the apple," rather than "they ate the fruit." The modern French word is pommes, meaning apple. Another interesting use of that word is "pommes de terre," which is what the French call potatoes - apple of the earth.

Pomona is the Roman goddess of fruitful abundance, and the word Pomona is related to the Latin pomus (fruit tree) and the Latin word pomum meaning "fruit", and specifically orchard fruit. The English word "pome" means fruit with several seed chambers, apples and pears in particular, as opposed to drupe, or stone fruit (cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, nectarines) and baccate fruit (berries).

Meanwhile, there is an apple variety named "Pomegranate" and a Pomegranate variety named "Eve."

Armed with that knowledge you should be able to avoid making any mistakes on this issue.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good set, Mike.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Thanks to tradio, Frank, John Matthew, and Earnest Botello for the kind words.