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[Ed & Pat Fackler <rocmdw@aye.net>]

George:

     NY 428 was a tad smaller than 429, possessed rather course flesh (a tad
harder than 429), flesh was greenish white.  Flavor okay, perhaps a tad better
than 429 as grown here.
     I think Gene Wild of Indy still has trees of 428.

Ed Fackler

George Greene wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am interested in getting any ones opinion on the NY 428 apple variety.  I
> think it was available some years ago from the NY Cooperative Fruit Testing
> Assoc.  It is a sister to NY 429 that was named Fortune in 1995.  The
> original cross was made in 1962 by Roger Way.  It is a 'Schoharie Spy'
> times 'Empire' cross.
>
> Best regards, George Greene
>
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