West Virginia author Anna Egan Smucker's newest book is featured in the Stark Bros. nursery catalog as part of a grow-your-own fruit tree kit for children.
Smucker's book "Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story" (illustrated by Kathleen Kemly) tells the true story of how the Golden Delicious apple was discovered growing on a Clay County hillside by Anderson Mullens more than 100 years ago.
Mullens sent a box of apples to Stark Bros. nursery in Missouri. One of the Stark brothers traveled to Clay County to see the tree, buy it from Mullens and send grafts back to his nursery. All Golden Delicious apple trees are descended from that tree.
Click the title for the rest of the story from the Charleston Gazette
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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