Richared, one of the first red strains of Delicious, was such an exciting discovery that a box full was sent to U.S. President Herbert Hoover. Red Delicious is a persistent apple. It started out 140 years ago as an unwanted seedling in an Iowa orchard and became the most widely planted cultivar in the world. Despite the increasing popularity of numerous other apple varieties in recent decades, Red Delicious is still the top apple variety in the United States with more than 50 ­million boxes produced annually. The variety originated as a seedling growing among Bellflower trees in the orchard […]