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  • From: "Yorrba" <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: "nafex@yahoogroups.com" <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] liberty apple
  • Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:29:46 -0400 (EDT)

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With all the interesting and disparate experiences with Liberty, I just had
to put in my two cents worth.

I grew Liberty apples in North Georgia. If picked red ripe (but not easily
parting from the stem), they were
awful- tasteless. If left to ripen longer (when they separated with a
half-twist or when the birds starting
pecking holes in them) they were incredibly tasty- rich flavor and
surprisingly sweet. Growers in that part of
the country cannot grow edible Macs or many of Mac offspring (Cortland
sometimes was barely edible in the
higher elevation Georgia orchards). The Macs, Cortlands and Macouns I've
eaten from New York and
Canadian orchards were quite tasty. I planted Liberty because I wanted to
test its disease resistance- I had
no real hopes for it as a good eating apple for the South. Now it is one of
my favorites when it is ripened
properly.

An aside- the Ben Davis is another apple that is only at its best in certain
areas. It is famous for it's terrible
quality as grown up North, but many of the old-timers in the South remember
it fondly. After I grew this apple
for myself I reconsidered the composite description from the old Southern
orchardists- essentially that it was
the finest >>drying<< apple. It OK to eat (as grown in the South), but I
think its main value was the
appearance of the dried slices- it doesn't brown even without a sulfur
treatment. As far as taste of the dried
slices, I couldn't tell that it was better than most other good apples when
dried. Not an apple that I will plant
again, but it deserves some measure of respect.

Yorrba
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