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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] RE: Ultimate Cooking Apple

Bring some to the Home Orchard Society scion exchange.  That's this Saturday, March 6, at the Clackamas country fairgrounds in Canby, Oregon.  See http://www.homeorchardsociety.org
-Lon Rombough
>

> I've got an apple that I like for cooking, which was in the way of a pond I
> was building near Buena Vista. We cabled it to an oak and winched it out of
> the way. The apples are big, green and lumpy, and hold texture well, tart
> with lots of complexity to the flavor. I got scion wood and have some
> grafted; don't know if the original tree still exists. (seedling?) Anyway,
> I'll find out if it bears well. Made the best crisp I ever have with it.