York Imperial Cherries
I keep coming across references to fruit with York County origins, which I don't mind. I like fruit and this is a good place to grow fruit as well as enjoy eating it. The climate and soil are right for fruit trees to thrive. It's no wonder that local growers experimented with new cultivars with some success.
In a recent post I related an account of Confederate soldiers enjoying Napoleon cherries in 1863 at York Township's Springwood Farm, where Jonathan Jessop had developed the York Imperial apple some years before.
Click below for those previous fruit posts.
Confederate cherries.
Jessop's apple.
Did you know a York Imperial cherry was also patented by a York County nursery?
Continue reading There Was a York Imperial Cherry Too.
