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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Very interesting apple flowering on a few trees this spring.  Three "summer" 
apples
(Aug to early Sep ripe) seemed to rebloom, or at least finish blooming, a 
week after
our coldest weather here.  We had some raw cold & rain & wind, and then the 
apple
flowers all faded, and then later a few trees rallied.   The one which showed 
the
most flowers after frost is a strongly biennial-bearer, which could not have 
held
more buds-- flower buds stacked on flower buds, only half were open for the 
bad
weather.  Were these later flowers too immature to be damaged by freezes?

tc, s.WI, mosquitos starting


                
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