How Many Types of Delicious Apple Are There?
red and golden delicious apples image by tim elliott from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/fo/fl/many-types-delicious-apple-there_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); A Golden and a Red Delicious apple. Delicious is a particular variety of apple, a name coined by James Hart Stark. Stark started Stark Bro’s nursery in Missouri in 1816, bringing trees from his family orchard in Kentucky. In the 1930s, Paul Stark Sr. helped write U.S. legislation to create patent rights for plant varieties. Stark Bro’s has introduced many apple varieties, and holds the exclusive rights to breed many patented varieties of the fruit. As of 2010, there are at least 10 types of Delicious apple, and over 60 sport varieties, which are the result of naturally occurring mutations in the color and growth pattern of the fruit. Hawkeye Delicious The Hawkeye is the original Delicious apple. Jesse Hiatt cultivated this apple for 10
