They preferred apples to North America's native crab apple, a smaller, tarter fruit. Today, many types of apples are grown in the U.S., but a small percentage of the ones you can buy in grocery ...

In the Chicago area, crab apple varieties with good resistance to apple scab include Red Jewel (M. ‘Jewelcole’), Prairifire (M. ‘Prairifire) and Professor Sprenger (M. ‘Professor Sprenger’).

Many crab apple trees in our region were hit by a disease called apple scab this year. Horticulturist Bob Olen tells me that “two standard varieties in our landscape, Radiant and Red Splendor ...

The only native apple in North America was the crab apple, and the colonists found ... It’s hard to say which varieties of apple first came to America, because there are so many.

As domestic apple cultivation became more sophisticated in the 18th and 19th centuries, crabs were grown to provide the rootstock upon which different varieties of apple were grafted. They also ...