[NAFEX] looking for an old Idaho apple variety
Naomi
dragon-star at cableone.net
Mon Feb 19 00:19:04 EST 2007
I have a friend looking for an Old type Idaho apple. This is what he says
about it.
the apples are normally 3 inch, somewhat smooth .with limited red......and
somewhat tart, yet sweet flavor ...... they seem best right off the tree,
however I've never tried to keep many of them as they are usually worm
infected
.
: the trees are always around old homesteads, and normally the ones I can
find are on deserted homesteads that were very old track homes built in
the early 20's and 30's prolly
they normally do not have the bumps on the bottom........ and of course
taste is relevant to the person doing the chewing
I also found this which Randy says sounds pretty close: The farm I grew up
on in Idaho had a dozen huge apple trees with lovely green, tart, crisp
apples that sunburn to stripes of red and yellow. A couple times we called
an apple expert out to try and ID them. None could, just told us it was some
"Antique variety". But it spoiled me for commercial apples forever
Naomi
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