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Consider the fate of America’s favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an ...

When it comes to ranking apples, some may pledge allegiance to the crisp and crunchy Pink Ladies, while others may hail the tart Granny Smiths as the superior variety. But almost everyone can agree ...

There's never been a better time to eat — and cook with — American apple varieties. Frans Rombout / PicturePartners / Getty Images One day in 2004, Brooke Hazen noticed something unusual about one of ...

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history. Red Delicious — the kind you see at the supermarket — is one of ...

"You can now have a piece of Iowa's history in your backyard,'' said Mary Victor, Lyon County Extension educator. "The original Red Delicious apple tree is now being sold in Iowa and it is nothing ...

After more than a half-century as America’s most-grown apple, the Red Delicious is on track to be ousted this year by a sweet, juicy, young upstart: the Gala. That’s according to the U.S. Apple ...

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer. A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight ...

So the Gala, a pome developed in faraway New Zealand, may soon eclipse the Red Delicious as America’s favorite apple? (“Red Delicious No Longer Apple of America’s Eye,” Aug. 27) That may be, but the ...