Willow Twig Apple

  • Also Known As: James River Apple
  • Also Known As: Willow Apple
  • Also Known As: Willow Leaf Apple

Willow Twig Apple is a medium to large, green to yellow, American fruit with a crisp texture. The sweet-tart and juicy apple is good for eating out of hand and making apple cider. - AsNotedIn





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Y/M/D Person Association Description Place Locale Event
1845/00/00 The Willow Twig apple is described in a Virginia planting catalogue.
1848/00/00 Charles M Hovey Horticulturalist A great keeper, and of good size - regarded as among the most valuable apples cultivated on the Ohio River.... It is stated to have been brought from New Jersey. - C M Hovey, The Magazine of Horticulture
1867/00/00 WILLOW TWIG-JAMES RIVER, ETC. This Virginia fruit has obtained a wide spread notoriety as a valuable market apple throughout the West. "American pomology. Apples" by John Aston Warder, published in New York via Orange Judd and Company.
1896/00/00 Nathan Hellings Work The apple crop in Hancock County, an "enormous 100,000 barrels of apples" or about 300,000 bushels, is produced on an area of 2,000 acres. The almost $250,000 in earnings is shared by about twenty entrepreneurs in the county. Hancock County
1897/00/00 Nathan Hellings Architect Nathan Helling erects an Apple Barn with a siding connecting the barn to the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Railway. Built to be extremely tight, the barn is an early attempt at using atmospheric control to store fruit. Nathan Hellings Apple Barn New Cumberland

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Food Culture American Food
Product Kind Food
Food Form Victual




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