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["JERROLD KOERNER" <j.f.koerner@worldnet.att.net>]

J.K. Shaw of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station published a
number of Bulletins on identifing apple varieties by the characteristics of
the tree and its parts and not from the fruit.  They are rather hard to find
since they were published between 1920-1940's.  In his 1922 Bulletin No. 208
"Leaf Characters of Apple Varieties" he presents a key for identifing 26
apple varieties that were popular in Massachusetts at the time, solely by
the characteristics of the leaves.  He expanded on this in his 1943 Bulletin
No. 403 "Descriptions of Apple Varieties" where he describes 90 apple
varieties by the characteristics of the tree, branches, bark,lenticels and
its leaves.  Jerry Appleseed

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>From: "dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
>To: <nafex@egroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Apple ID keys
>Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2000, 9:47 AM
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> Does anybody in the HOS know what book Kevin is referring to?
>
> I've just read an article about Wisley (Research Centre/Garden?) in England.
They
> offer a service of identifying apples for about 5 pounds. I don't know the
> conversion rate.  But they do not cut the apple open.  I thought it
interesting
> that they do not use core shape or flavour or texture.    There are a couple
of
> people on Vancouver Island who have become quite good at identifying apples
grown
> in this area.  They do rely on smell, texture and flavour.  They are 
> starting
to
> use leaf shape also to help in identification.
>
> Derry
>
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
> Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> : When I visited the Home Orchard Society out there in Oregon, there
> : was an apple identifier there who had a little keyed book.
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> : What impressed me most was that most of what identifies an apple is
> : outside, not inside the fruit- color, stem size and position,
> : markings in the flesh, shape and form of the calyx, speckles on the
> : skin, etc..
> : Kevin B
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