X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Red Delicious


Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum

Over the years, many of Arbor Lodge's apple orchards were demolished, but in the 1990s their restoration began with plantings of Winesaps, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Jonathans, and Jonadels.

Red Delicious

The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, who called it "Hawkeye".

Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards

Stark Brothers Nurseries were the marketers of the Red Delicious and the Golden Delicious apple.

Wakin on a Pretty Daze

Vile also holds a red apple, alluding to the tracks, "Red Apples" and "Runner Ups," from God Is Saying This to You... (2009) and Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011), respectively.


Cultivar

Cultivars generally occur as ornamentals and food crops: Malus 'Granny Smith' and Malus 'Red Delicious' are cultivars of apples propagated by cuttings or grafting, Lactuca 'Red Sails' and Lactuca 'Great Lakes' are lettuce cultivars propagated by seeds.


see also