Other Fruits

Gilliflower Apples!

At Hocking Hills Orchard, here at the Four Seasons Cabins, we grow many different varieties of Apples, Pears, Grapes and other fruit.

The apple varieties in this group all have a similar round-conic shape and a clove like aroma and flavor. The word Gilliflower is believed to have been derived from the old French word Girofle meaning clove.

These apples are sometimes called "Sheepnose" because of their shape. They are great eating. More great tastes to try.

Apple varieties

• Black Gilliflower

(late 1700's Connecticut, US) Medium to large size fruit. Skin dark red, deepening to dark purplish-red or almost black, shape long conic. Flesh firm, greenish white. Rich, mild, sweet flavor. A favorite of Benjamin Franklin. Ripens in October.

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• Cornish Gilliflower

(1800 Cornwall, England, UK) Medium to large sized, rather unusual irregular oblong or oblong-conical shaped fruit. The knobbly exterior is quite boldly ribbed and distinctly five crowned. The skin is rather rough, often with some russetting, greenish yellow with up to half flushed orange-red. Very firm yellow flesh, tinged green around the core. Rather dry but sweet with a melon like frangrance.

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