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  • From: Phil Norris <cousinphil@acadia.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] What do you know about Spencer apples?
  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:25:02 -0500

Mike,

My Spencer tree is only about 5 feet high, hardly more than a whip, but I'm looking forward to getting apples from it one of these years. I bought two bushels of Spencer apples from a Maine orchard once and my, my, weren't they tasty! I knew right then and there that I just had to have my own tree.

P

On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 11:08 AM, Michael Glassford wrote:

I bought 1/2 bushel of "utility grade" Spencers from a local orchard, along
with smaller quantities of many other kinds of apples for storage in my
in-basement root cellar. Every single one of the Spencers (that I haven't
eaten!) is in as good shape today as it was when I bought it. Better, in
fact, since they have ripened a little and the flavor has gotten both
stronger and sweeter. It has been my favorite eating apple all winter.

Spencer has some of the flavor of Golden Delicious (one of its parents; the
other is McIntosh), but isn't cloying like Golden Delicious sometimes is. If
they're this good picked slightly green, I wonder how they taste picked
ripe?

Anyway, I'm wondering in particular: are there any notable problems growing
Spencer (e.g. high susceptibility to scab, hard-to-train tree, etc.)?
Anything else anyone can tell me would also be appreciated.

Mike
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