There are over 7,500 apple varieties ... but over time it became known as King of Tompkins County. First rediscovered in an Arkansas Orchard in the late 1800s, this apple is an old heirloom ...

"I'm a bit of an apple detective. I've been interested in old varieties all my life. "I showed some fruit to a botanist, who was very curious about a single tree bearing bright yellow apples.

Ray Covington, superintendent of the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center near Blairsville, takes a bite of a Terry Winter apple, one of the 138 varieties ... for a time — to have ...