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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Red Delicious/sheepnose/shape on end
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:35:12 -0500

Sam mentioned the "knobs" found on the blossom ends of RD,s.  I have heard
them referred to as "sugar lumps" or something like that.  Probably so named
by an enterprising marketeer.
The knobs on the bottom end I call "Sheep-nosing".  The oldest apple with such protrusions on the bottom is "Sheepnose", I have tasted it grown at the Lathrop Davenport Preservation Orchard at Sturbridge Village, a historical village in Massachusetts.

The Sheepnose apple is similar to the "Red Delicious" group, mealy, low taste, origin Connecticut mid-1800's [if I recall correctly]  Scionwood should be available from Worcester County Horticultural Society scionwood distribution program.  I think it was a deep red color.  I have always assumed "Hawkeye" red delicious was a seedling of "Sheepnose".   S. Lathrop Davenport was a foremost New England apple preserver of the 1940's, also was NNGA member, I have grafted from a giant persian walnut he planted.  S. Lathrop preserved the original-real Macintosh, 20 oz. pippen, Palmer Greening, etc. etc.

Charlie Paradise Massachusetts


  • [NAFEX] Re: Red Delicious, Doc Lisenby, 03/28/2005
    • [NAFEX] Red Delicious/sheepnose/shape on end, Charles Paradise, 03/29/2005

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