How Our National Fruit is Grown and Where it Comes From--Importance of the Traffic--Prospects of This Season. Share full article. Aug. 22, 1870.

The United States doesn't have a national fruit but author Susan Playfair believes it should be the cranberry – and that's embodied in the title of her latest book, "America's Founding Fruit ...

Lovingly called “ our national fruit ” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, apples once proliferated in American backyards and orchards, a vital source of nutrition and a potent symbol of home. But now, most of ...