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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I like fresh apples, very much.  The ones from the store are always grainy or 
mushy, if ripe.  It is almost impossible to buy good apples, anymore.  You 
are fortunate to have fresh apples.  I'll look uo hawthorne trees later and 
see if it is what I remember.  Thanks.........


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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cherry question
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:33 PM
> >I don't like cherries and don't know anything
> about growing them, but; in 
> >cold weather areas like yours, apples should grow well.
>  I have seen old 
> >heirloom type apple trees with apples about the same
> size as cherries and 
> >real thorny  (I mean dangerously thorny) limbs. They
> trees are not large 
> >like a regular apple or peach tree. They were called
> 'hog apples' , but i 
> >don't know their real name; but they were tasty....
> >
> I have apple trees (some heirloom), peach and pear trees. I
> want to add a 
> couple cherry trees; I prefer sweet cherries, but I think
> I'm a little too 
> far north. I've hear of some pie cherries coming out of
> Canada that are as 
> sweet as sweet cherries, but I can't track down a
> source.
> 
> The tree you describe sounds like a Hawthorn tree; it's
> related to apples. I 
> have a couple on my property, but they are old and not
> producing well. The 
> fruit are called "haws".
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA 
> 
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