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[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

Thanks Prez,
Nice to know you're there. Well, Nafex is a lot of fun without all our 
schemes. I 
wrote an a little review today of a good book and feel pretty good about 
sending it 
to Pomona. 

On another subject, I was eating a batch of an apple I am very familiar with, 
which 
has a deep but not tart flavor. Many of them have slight watercore. The ones 
with 
watercoring had a really good flavor, excentuating the already deep flavor, 
and 
changing it to something vaguely familiar. Over a few days of munching, I 
realized 
what I was tasting: gooseberries! The watercore fruit have a very strong 
gooseberry 
flavor, like I was eating one of those Grapples (grape juice concentrate 
coated or 
injected?). Just wondering if other fruits are enhanced by watercore? I 
seemed to 
notice when I was younger that fruit with sawfly damage also had a very 
enhanced 
flavor.
Another gorgeous day in Maine,
Heron