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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Apple quality, Gala
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:21:02 -0500

At 08:11 AM 09/25/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > But I am not sure that things were ever a great deal better in the
> > past on average; indeed I have read of Ben Davis apples a century ago
> > being shoveled out of boxcars into the buckets of housewives, which
> > sounds rather ominous for taste and texture.

While I've never had occasion to eat a Ben Davis, Jim Cummins has some
rather humorous treatments of BD and its 'attributes' in some of his
writings, online at the Cummins Nursery website. Be sure to check out the
"Stories" page, and the Ben Davis and Thirsty Cider tales.

http://www.cumminsnursery.com



Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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