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Hall
type: Dessert
synonyms: Hall Apple, Hall's Red, Hall's Pippin, Hall's Seedling
identification: Small, round tending to round-conic. The skin is smooth and thick. The yellow base colour is covered with a dull red wash.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, fine grained, tender and juicy. Very sweet, aromatic with distinct hints of vanilla.
origins: Grown from unknown seeds by Jonathan Hall on his farm in Franklin County, North Carolina (U.S.A.) during the late 1700s. Unfortunately, through the 1800s, the focus was on large apples and this diminutive cultivar, in spite of its excellent flavour and keeping qualities, almost disappeared. However, Tom Brown, a dedicated collector of heritage apples discovered a gnarled, old apple tree that matched the description of the Hall in the mountains of North Carolina in 2002 and propagated it with cuttings. Several nurseries in the southern United States now offer the Hall apple. Listed by John Ashton Warder in his "American Pomology: Apples" published in 1867. Also mentioned by A.J. Downing (Andrew Jackson) in "The Fruit and Fruit Trees of America" published in 1869. "The tree never attains a very large size; is very productive, and is considered in North Carolina the best long keeping dessert apple they cultivate."
cultivation: Well suited to mild climates. Lends itself to farm-gate sales and hobby/heritage orchards.
progeny: Magnum Bonum.
cold storage: Keep four months.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fifth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 24
harvest period: 5
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