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  • From: "Luffman, Margie" <luffmanm@AGR.GC.CA>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Apple Identification
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:11:41 -0400

Neighbours who have lived in the area for more than 80 years say that the
tree has been there at least all of their lives, so we can speculate its
planting date to be ca. 1924. This does bring the date closer to Battleford's
introduction.

Margie



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-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of loneroc
Sent: October 20, 2004 7:22 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Identification

Why couldn't the apple have been planted later than the house was built. Is
there evidence that they originated at the same time?

Steve Herje, lone rock, WI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Identification


> >Since Battleford was introduced about 1930 and this tree was planted in
> >about 1910, I doubt it could be Battleford. Also the apple is very
sweet.
> >Battleford is so tart in my opinion a person can arely even finish one
> >apple. Usually after one bite a person doesn't take another with
> >Battleford. pples of that size were extremely rare on the prairies,
> >especially at that time.
>
> Your right Bernie, 1910 is too early for Battleford, but my experience
with
> Battleford is that if eaten perfectly ripe, before going soft it is a good
> eating apple, not that tart. Of course, taste is relative isn't it?
>
> I know from my discussions with the breeders at the U of S and the U of
> Minn, open pollinated seeds are tossed as garbage because 99% of the time,
> they seedlings usually are. As you say, apples of that size were
extremely
> rare, and in 1910 there was pretty much only the Siberian Crab which was
> completely hardy. This is why I have my doubts that it was a complete
> hardy, OP seedling of an apple such as McIntosh. Apple breeding began at
> the U of S in the 1920's, so I'd wager that it is something that came out
of
> that early work. It's only a guess however.
>
> It would be very interesting to get a sample of leaf and fruit to try to
> discover it's identity.
>
> Dean Kreutzer
> Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
> USDA zone 3
>
>
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