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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You are correct.  Almost all of our apples come from washington state or from 
CA.  They arrive here tasting mealy.  I like a good apple.  There is one town 
in AZ, famous (in AZ) for its apples.  The town is named Wilcox.  I don't 
know where they sell their apples except it isn't in Phoenix.  They probaly 
ship them to PA, where they end up there, mealy......

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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, 4:46 PM
> Bob; I doubt that apples grow where you are, so any you get
> there will be 
> brought in. We have many, many old orchards here that are
> just left to go 
> wild. One of my plans is to get permission to prune and
> tend one of them in 
> return for the apples...sometimes it's hard to find the
> owners.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cherry question
> 
> 
> >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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