September 15, 2014 Introduction As the small family orchard became unprofitable, and Prohibition made cider apples taboo, people stopped propagating the old varieties. Of those thousands of nineteenth-century varieties, a mere six (Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, McIntosh) came to dominate the late-twentieth-century market. All Excerpts From Jacobsen, Rowan. “Apples of Uncommon Character.” Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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