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  1. Jul 16, 2024 · According to Wikipedia: The Red Delicious apple’s rise and fall is a tale as juicy as the fruit itself. In the 1940s, this apple was the apple of everyone's eye in the U.S. By the 1980s, it was hogging three-quarters of Washington state’s apple harvest.

  2. Red Delicious is a type of apple with a red exterior and sweet taste that was first recognized in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872. Today, the name Red Delicious comprises more than 50 cultivars . It was the most produced cultivar in the United States from 1968 to 2018, when it was surpassed by Gala .

    Date
    Inventor
    Marketed As
    Mutated From
    Apr 3, 1934
    Henry Shotwell
    Shotwell Delicious
    Delicious
    May 18, 1954
    Plough
    Royalred 1805
    Richared
    Aug 23, 1955
    Brauns
    Red King 1811
    Starking
    Feb 12, 1957
    Bisbee
    Starkrimson
    Starking
  3. Jan 6, 2021 · Thanks to traditions like apple picking in autumn and baking apple pies, the iconic fruit is sure to stand the test of time. There is no food quite as ubiquitous as the apple. However, the taste for the Red Delicious has waned since its introduction generations ago. Here's why.

  4. Jun 16, 2022 · According to LeAnn Zotta’s book 200 Years and Growing: The Story of Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co., Stark Brothers soon purchased the rights from Hiatt and named the apple the “Stark Delicious.” In 1914, after the naming of the Golden Delicious, it received its final name: Red Delicious.

  5. Sep 20, 2016 · One bite into the apple and the nursery owner exclaimed, “Delicious”! The nursery owner must know a thing or two about tastes, because the red delicious is the country’s most widely planted apple tree.

  6. Now one of the world's most familiar apples, Red Delicious was discovered by chance; an event that vaulted Stark Bro's into the chronicles of apple lore. Back in 1893, the best-known and the most widely-planted apple was 'Ben Davis'.

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  8. Red Delicious is a medium-sized apple, with a tall conical shape. The dark and intense crimson colour makes it the quintessential red apple, and it is has strong shelf appeal. A number of improved "sports" have been developed, of which the most well-known is probably Starking.

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