Apple Varieties being grown and sold in Northern Florida in 1916 at Interstate Nursery

 Sort of a few Surprising Apples not thought "Low Chill":



Mason


Jim Day


Arkansas Black


Ben Davis


Horse


Maidens Blush


Jennings of Florida


Red Astrakhan


Red June


Rome Beauty


Shockley


Transcendent Crab

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