![]() ![]() "I thought to myself, 'Now young feller, I'll just leave you there,' and that's what I did. ![]() There wasn't another apple tree right close by anywhere. It was just a new little apple tree that had volunteered there. "I was swingin' away with the scythe when I came across a little apple tree that had grown about 20 inches tall. "Now one day, when I was about 15 years old, that would have been about 1891, dad sent me out with a big old mowin' scythe to mow the pasture field. I was born in 1876 on the farm where that apple tree later became famous. Anderson Mullins sold the tree and propagation rights to Stark Brothers Nurseries, which first marketed it as a companion of their Red Delicious in 1914. ![]() The original tree was found on the Mullins' family farm in Clay County, West Virginia, United States and was locally known as Mullin's Yellow Seedling and Annit apple. This cultivar is a chance seedling possibly a hybrid of Grimes Golden and Golden Reinette. 5 lbs pesticide free Golden Delicious apples. ![]()
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