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  • From: "Richard J. Ossolinski" <osso@acadia.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Grey Pearmain Apple
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:17:19 -0500

Thanks for your speculations, Claude. I will be sure to share your message
with my friend.
Richard

Claude Jolicoeur wrote:
>
> Could this Grey Pearmain be the Pomme grise? Among its synonyms, there is
> Gray Apple and Reinette grise. Sometimes, the Reinettes' names are
> translated as Pearmains in English. The description you give could fit for
> Pomme grise.
> Claude in Quebec.
>
> A 20:28 01.01.27 -0500, vous avez écrit :
> >Hello, all,
> >A friend and fellow fruit grower has extolled the virtues of an apple
> >called
> >Grey Pearmain. He writes:
> >
> > "...the grey pearmain is a very obscure apple. The Iowa Fruit, Berry,
> >and Nut Inventory lists 14 different pearmains but has no reference to the
> >Grey Pearmain.
> > The Grey Pearmain is a small, russetted, late-ripening fruit. In my
> >mind it has a nice crunchy texture, and a wonderful, unique flavor which is
> >at it's best a month after it is picked around the end of November."
> >
> >I cannot find mention of it in any of my catalogs or reference books - or
> even
> >on the net., so am hoping that perhaps one of you might be able to shed
> >some
> >light on this apparently desirable cultivar. Many thanks.
> >Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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