From the founding of Jamestown to the time of Washington and Jefferson, every plantation owner made cider, drank cider, and bragged about his cider.
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Fruit
Nelson County Crab
NELSON COUNTY CRAB is another candidate in orchardist Tom Burford's opinion for the lost Taliaferro (Thomas Jefferson's favorite cider apple). This is a precocious tree, early blooming. Appears promising for cider.