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[John Bunker <jbunker@palermo.org>]

We've been offering Chestnut Crab in the Fedco catalog for ten years or so.
I've eaten a lot of the fruit.  I like it very much and it produces very well 
in
Maine (z 3 and 4).  However, it is quite  sweet, and  those who like their 
fruit
"subacid" may prefer other varieties.

John Bunker, Fedco Trees





"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:

> I first tried Chestnut at the U of Minnesota Research farm and I will agree
> that it was the best tasting apple in the place.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, consulting, more, at
> http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom  See new additions to the site, Feb. 2001,
> plus word on my grape book.
>
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> >From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
> >To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: chestnut crab
> >Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2001, 6:10 PM
> >
>
> > Golly, as a novice grafter with only a couple hundred under my belt -
> >Chestnut has been the one i could count on with 90% success on seedlings
> >(plum-leaf crab)......From what i can gather here in N. Minnesota it's the
> >most popular eating crab......
> > Bergman's Nursery 40 miles west of us has tried to sponser dropping the
> >"crab apple" designation for good eating crabs like chestnut..and instead
> >calls them "LUNCH BOX APPLES".  A brilliant bit of word smithing i might 
> >say
> >to get over the prejudice that "if it's a crab, i'ts sour".....Did they
> >invent this term or is it ubiquitous and I didn't know it?
> > If i can get over to a friends tree i can get you a bucket of chestnut
> >scion wood.....but i can't guarantee its disease free or such.
> >     Mn. Del z2b
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
> >>Reply-To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> >>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> >>Subject: [nafex] Re: chestnut crab
> >>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:24:49 -0600
> >>
> >>At 11:59 AM 02/22/2001 -0600, Donna wrote:
> >> >The two crabs I have heard mentioned as good edibles, Chestnut
> >> >and Caramel, are both mentioned as very disease resistant.
> >>
> >>Hmm.  I tried grafting Chestnut crab two years in a row, with scions
> >>purchased from two different sources, on several different rootstocks -
> >>M.111, M.9, M.7, and seedlings.  Never could get a take, and I didn't
> >>handle it any differently from any of the other apples, on which I got 
> >>>90%
> >>successful takes.
> >>
> >>Lucky Pittman
> >>USDA Zone 6
> >>Hopkinsville, KY
> >>
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