Purple tissue wrap enhanced Holtzinger apples and inspired a new line of labels. Charles M. Holtzinger (more familiarly known as C.M. Holtzinger) was one of the few Pacific Northwest fruit industry pioneers who had roots in an orcharding family. His grandfather had planted an orchard as part of his 120-acre farm in Hamburg, Iowa, in the decade before the Civil War. It was on this farm that C. M. was born in 1874. His father, who had enlisted as a private in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry in the Civil War, returned to the Iowa farm, married, and soon had a […]