Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The ‘Taliaferro’ (pr. Tolliver) ‘Robinson’ or ‘Robertson’ was a small-sized apple grown at Monticello by Thomas Jefferson. This cultivar appears to be extinct though some horticulturalists assert that the ‘Highland County’ cultivar may be related or even the same cultivar under a different name.Jefferson called the variety Taliaferro in reference to a Major Taliaferro from whom he got his first samples of the fruit.