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[derry and bill <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Bruce,

I can only speak about how they taste and grow in the PNW (south coastal B.C.)

: Queen Cox a redder sport of Cox's Orange Pippin - tastes good, sweet, but 
quite
susceptible to anthracnose canker.

: Bramley - excellent cooking apple if you like mushy pies. The Brits think 
it is
the #1 cooker of all. Almost scab-free, big, green, goes biennial.

: Fiesta - excellent apple, sweet-tart, a Cox's Orange cross, looks great, but
very susceptible to anthracnose canker. I have 100 varieties of apple trees 
and
Fiesta is my #2 for flavour. Rubinette ranks #1 because it is sweeter.

: Greensleeves - I don't grow it.

: Honeycrisp - very nice apple, but not a gourmet apple. Susceptible to 
honeycore,
goes biennial.

: MacFree - don't grow it.