Apples (fruit)

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Niraj Chokshi, For First Time in Decades, a New King of Apples. New York Times, Aug 30, 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/ ... elicious-apple.html

Note:
(a) "After more than a half-century as America's most-grown apple, the Red Delicious is on track to be ousted this year by a sweet, juicy, young upstart: the Gala. * * * The Red Delicious is still projected to be the second most-popular apple by production in America, according to the group [US Apple Association], which claims 7,500 growers as members. The Granny Smith will be third, followed by Fuji and the ascendant Honeycrisp"
(i) Gala (apple)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gala_(apple)
(Gala apples ranked at number 2 in 2006 on the US Apple Association's list of most popular apples, after Red Delicious and before Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Fuji (in order).; a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Kidd's Orange Red (apple), for which Donald W McKenzie, an employee of Stark Bros Nursery, obtained a US plant patent in 1974 and became commercially available that year) )
(ii) Granny Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Smith
(iii) Fuji (apple)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_(apple)
(table: origin: Fujisaki, Aomori 青森県 藤崎町)

Mount Fuji 富士山 (Japanese pronunciation Fujisan had the pronunciation first, then Chinese characters arrived in Japan where Japanese picked up two Chinese characters with the same pronunciation. On the other hand, the Chinese character (or Kanji) has "fuji" for Japanese pronunciation and ("tō" or "dō") for Chinese pronunciations.

(b) "While the country had native apples, the most common domestic varieties today are descendants [the emphasis is 'descendants' -- not pirated from Europe -- as one can see from genealogy of various apples] of centuries-old imports from Europe, according to “Apples of North America,” a book by Mr [Tom] Burford, whose family has been growing apples since the early 1700s.  Apples were an important part of colonial America, used not only as food but often to make hard cider, a popular alternative to water that was unfit to drink * * * But the Red Delicious was a relative latecomer. It was discovered in the late 1800s by Jesse Hiatt, an Iowa farmer who reluctantly let a Red Delicious tree grow on his property after several unsuccessful attempts at killing it, according to various accounts.  In the early 1890s, Mr Hiatt entered the fruit, which he had named 'Hawkeye,' into an apple competition"
(i) The English name Hyatt (Hiatt being a variant) is "a topographic name [name of place(s)] from Middle English hegh, hie high + yate gate. Jewish (American): Americanized spelling of Chait."
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.

Chait
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chait
(ii) Hawkeye State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_State

(c) "The Honeycrisp, for example, has soared in popularity, largely on the strength of its crispness and sweetness, since it was developed at the University of Minnesota and released in 1991."