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Tilton
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Tilton is a productive California process apricot—medium fruit, orange flesh, and high soluble solids that suit canning and drying more than ultra-premium fresh dessert. Flavour is good and apricot-true without the haunting perfume of Blenheim at its best. Trees crop heavily, which processors historically valued. Use for commercial-style dried fruit, nectar, and pie filling. Fresh eating is acceptable when fully ripe and local. A workhorse name in twentieth-century US apricot industry lists rather than a boutique farmers’ market star.
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History
California selections established Tilton as a heavy-bearing process apricot.
Canneries and dry yards relied on Tilton volume through mid-century.
Tilton remained a listed commercial cultivar as industry geography shifted.
Tilton acreage declined with overall California apricot contraction yet the name endured.