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["victoria l. caron" <vicaron@gis.net>]

I have been -watching/picking from/sharing scions of- a local tree for over
fifteen years. I have never seen ANY insect damage or scab on the fruit in the
tree to date. I have rarely found some worms in fallen apples. This variety 
has
been passed out to many NAFEX'ers, the University of NH, and others originally
as SH#1 and later as STRATFORD. I would love to keep sharing this variety with
anyone interested. It ripens during a five to six week window in Zone three,
from late August. It's doubtful if we will ever know if it is a seedling or
named variety resembling almost exactly as described in Beach, ? Cole's Quince
or Fall Pippin (all my notes are at home on my other computer and it's Monday
morning after all!), except that it does not get scab.  I would also like to
trial other varieties any of you have that are resistant to anything. I can 
send
out bud wood shortly or dormant scions in season..................vic

Ward Barnes wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> In my orchard of some 50 apple trees I have one that over the past 3 years
> has had no or very few worm or other bug damage even in years (like this one
> in which I did not spray) that the other apples are hit very hard.  This is
> my wife's favorite eating apple and is not a bad cooking apple either.  The
> variety is unknown to me as this was a fully developed orchard prior to me
> purchasing the property.  Can this be a bug resistant apple and can the
> properties be transferred to established trees (I don't see how) or perhaps
> onto rootstock to establish a more reduced labor organic orchard?
>
> Ward Barnes
> Coastal Zone 7
> Middlesex County, VA.
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