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Nice comment, Dave....I wish you had my sprays and I had your loam....we
shall see.  We need more calcium here I think, but my trees from your
scionwood look good and should fruit next year.  I have about 25 trees in my
nursery from the scionwood you brought me last spring.  They are looking
good.  Most of my Pippins are from scionwood from Hickory Hollow and I have
a hundred or so on M-9 which should fruit next year.  We lost about 20 or so
trees so far to the drought and I think I will replant with Bud-9s just to
see what they will do here.  In Minnesota at the NAFEX meeting last week,
they were very high on B-9, but it may be better for northern than southern
climates.  We shall see.  What I don't have is standard rootstock and I may
just have to give that a try.
Cheers!
Charlotte

Charlotte Shelton
Vintage Virginia Apples, LLC
P. O. Box 210
North Garden, Virginia 22959
434.295.5382
www.vintagevirginiaapples.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Consolvo" <fruitopia@nexet.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Newtown/Albemarle Pippin


> The Albemarle Pippin apple originated in Newtown, Long Island in the
1700's,
> but grew particularly well in Albemarle and Nelson Counties of central
> Virginia, so it also acquired the name Albemarle Pippin.  It was and is
one
> of the longest-keeping apples in root cellar-type conditions.  So many
were
> shipped to England from Albemarle County in the 1800's that it made some
> growers quite well-off if not wealthy.
>
> It was once thought that the Newtown Pippin and the Yellow Newtown and the
> Green Newtown might be three separate apples, but it was long ago proven
> that they are one and the same, by growing all three together.  Apparently
> different soil types make the resulting apples differ.  In Albemarle and
> Nelson Counties the apple grew particularly well in the soil of some
> mountain hollows, i.e. a dark sandy loam, which came to called "pippin
> land".  That is the soil type I have here in my land in Albemarle County.
> Unfortunately, even grown in pippin land, the Albemarle Pippin does not do
> particularly well with spray neglect - I speak from experience from my
trees
> and a neighbor's.
>
> The taste is superb, particularly if stored at least a couple of months.
> The best apples are tree-ripened -- if ripened in the sun there can be a
bit
> of a pink blush on the best ones.  I have made pure cider from Albemarle
> Pippins, about which I have heard exclaimed immediately many times "This
is
> the best cider I have ever had".
>
> David Consolvo
> Hungrytown
> Albemarle County, Virgina
> Zone 7 and rising
>
> P.S. Rollin Woolley in Gloucester Virginia sells Albemarle Pippins grafted
> from my last living tree planted in the 1890's.  He's a good guy.
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