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Tarbutton
type: Cooking, Jelly
identification: Yellow with red striping.
uses: good cooking and drying. Makes an excellent apple jelly.
origins: Joyce Neighbors of Gadsden, Alabama, noted apple collector from whom we obtained this old apple, says the Tar Button is an old variety first described in a 1982?1983 catalog of Lawson’s Nursery in Ball Ground, Georgia. According to Jim Lawson this apple probably originated with a Humphrey Tarbutton of northern Georgia sometime in the 1800’s
ploidism: Self sterile.
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