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- From: jim <jmc1@epix.net>
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- Subject: Re: [nafex] Granny Smith apple
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:11:29 +0000
Bramley's Seedling is a triploid. You may have noticed that seed
count typically is fewer than 3, with additional empty seed husks.
Like other triploids, the few seeds produced are, with rare exceptions,
aneuploid; chromosome numbers are usually between 35 and 45.
Few of the seeds will germinate, and almost all of those few seedlings
will have small, strap-like leaves -- looks much like roundup damage.
The odds against Granny Smith deriving from Bramley's Seedling are far greater than the odds against George Patataki voting for Hillary Clinton last month. //Jim
dwalsh/wchase wrote: According to Morgan and Richards The Book of Apples: A Mrs Smith, born in England in 1800, emigrated to Australia in 1838. In 1860s she found some seedlings growing in a creek where she had tipped out some apples brought back from Sydney. Tree was propagated and later family increased their orchards and marketed fruit in Sydney. Apples exported from Sydney to Britain in 1930s (There is no mention of Bramley's Seedling being involved. Bramley's and Granny Smith look and taste very different). According to Martin Crawford's Directory of Apple Cultivars: Reine des Pommes is a cider (bittersweet) apple from Brittany, blooms early, pick in November, greenish-yellow flushed dark red, moderate vigour, good cropper, no parentage given. Derry Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca |
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Re: [nafex] Sutton Beauty apple,
H. Dessureault, 12/10/2000
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[nafex] Granny Smith apple,
dwalsh/wchase, 12/10/2000
- Re: [nafex] Granny Smith apple, jim, 12/11/2000
- [nafex] Reine des pommes / Granny Smith apples, Claude Jolicoeur, 12/11/2000
- [nafex] Re: Granny Smith apple origin, dwoodard, 12/11/2000
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[nafex] Granny Smith apple,
dwalsh/wchase, 12/10/2000
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