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Babbitt

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SKU AP014 Category Apple

Description

Harvest: Mid
Description: Large sized round, oblate angular shaped fruit
Skin: Pale yellow with red mottle
Flesh: Yellow
Taste: Firm, crisp flesh and slightly subacid
Uses: Cooking
Background: A seedling of Baldwin grown by C. W. Babbitt, Woodford County, Illinois, USA about 1845, and once grown widely in the Mississippi Valley. In 1911, Laura Breese travelled to the National Apple Show in Spokane, Washington, for a very important mission
Her Assignment: To determine which variety of America’s favourite fruit made the best apple pie. The winner was a West Virginia apple called Grimes Golden and Babbitt came second. A vigorous, spreading tree but not very productive

Product Type	Scion, Tree
Origin	USA
Product Year	1911
Harvest	M
Uses	Cooking
Description	and once grown widely in the Mississippi Valley. In 1911, Babbit Apple Harvest: Mid. Description: Large sized round, crisp flesh and slightly subacid. Uses: Cooking Background: A seedling of Baldwin grown by C.W. Babbitt, Illinois, Laura Breese travelled to the National Apple Show in Spokane, oblate angular shaped fruit. Skin – pale yellow with red mottle. Flesh – yellow. Taste: Firm, spreading tree but not very productive., USA about 1845, Washington, Woodford County

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