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[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

TO report in, I have retrieved the last of the good apples from my basement. 
About 
30 Northern Spys were rescued from mush and hairy ones. All other varieties 
have 
long been mush including a supposedly legendary keeper Black Oxford. Almost 
all of 
these 30 N.S. where of good eating quality, but of mellow flavor. Not soft or 
waxy, 
the flesh was a cross of tender and slightly crisp. I am up late eating 
another 
piece of Apple-blueberry (lowbush wild) crisp. Apples retrieved from the 
rootcellar 
6-5-05 1pm. Never knew the N.S. could keep so well so long, and it is the 
family 
favorite in the fall-Holiday period.
Yum,
Heron Breen
zone 4, Maine