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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

A woman was here today during lunch who reports a Blue Pearmain apple in her 
back yard has
considerable resistance to insects.

Of course I had tasted Blue Pearmain before and while it was an interesting 
bluish color, it
sure didn't please as an apple to eat out of hand.

Our visitor explained that Blue Pearmain is a dry apple, and she uses it for 
processing, and
always adds water when making it into applesauce, and even adds water on top 
of the crust when
making apple pie.  She suggested its dryness might make it disinteresting to 
bugs.

Can anyone confirm these reports?  I have heard Priscilla and Roxbury Russet 
mentioned as two
pretty resistant apples, but is Blue Pearmain also a resistant variety?  Or 
is it resistant but
just not usually grown due to uselessness as an eating apple?

Charlie Paradise
Massachusetts zone 5