Granny Smith Apple
A worn tombstone in an old graveyard at Ryde, near Sydney, is the only monument to Maria Ann Smith, the woman who first grew :he world’s most popular cooking apple—the G~anny Smith, according to ’‘Fruit and Produce." the magazine of th? New Zealand Fruit and Produce Merchants' and Auctioneers’ Federation. Mrs Smith and her husband had a small orchard at Eastwood. from 1850 to 1870 when she died. Hie only tree in her orchard which bore this green-skinned apple, was a wild seedling that was ‘bought to have grown from some French crab apples that had been buried there. The apple became known as the Granny Sm th because all deliveries from t.he orchard were in cases marked "Apples from Iranny Smith."
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 18
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125Granny Smith Apple Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 18
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