From the founding of Jamestown to the time of Washington and Jefferson, every plantation owner made cider, drank cider, and bragged about his cider.
Fruit
Saint Cecilia
SAINT CECILIA came from England and was raised c.1900 by John Basham & Sons. It is a Cox's Orange seedling. Intense, rich, aromatic, sweet, juicy, crisp when well-grown. Rather tough skin. Popular garden dessert variety in the west of England. Apples have a deep crimson flush and red stripes over a greennsh-yellow or yellow skin. Medium-sized with a round-conic shape, sometimes a bit lop-sided and can be slightly ribbed.
