From the founding of Jamestown to the time of Washington and Jefferson, every plantation owner made cider, drank cider, and bragged about his cider.
Fruit
Rainbow
RAINBOW was thought to have become extinct, but Carlos Manning discovered this tree in a small town near his home. According to Lee Calhoun, it was a Missouri apple sold by Stark Bros. Nursery around 1900, and was listed by a Virginia nursery from 1898 to 1901 as a dessert apple. Fruit is very large, conical, and the skin is yellow with strips and splashes of scarlet and red. The flesh is yellow, fine-grained, and juicy. Ripens August-September.
Ripening Period
- Late Summer - August
- Early Fall - September
