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  • From: waayupnorth <waayupnorth@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] crab apples: Kerr
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:34:34 -0800 (PST)

Kerr is described as "superb for juicing" near the
end of this list:

http://www.bitlink.ca/Library/AppleCultivars.html

I'm planning to use Kerr as a hardy stock for
topworking/frameworking.

Jerry Hapka
NW MN - Z3a
-32 F this morning

--- Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
wrote:

> At 10:56 AM 2/5/2007, E.Roland wrote:
> >The most delicious crab apple I've sampled, from
> anywhere in the
> >world, is called 'Kerr'. It tastes like a
> Gewurtztraminer wine - or
> >somewhere between champagne and a Moscato...
> incredible.
>
> Kerr is DolgoXHaralson, and I'll agree, it's pretty
> tasty. Pretty
> little red-over-yellow apples with crisp tart white
> flesh. It is
> available commercially - I got mine a dozen years or
> more ago, from
> Northwoods Nursery, or whatever it was that has
> since become One
> Green World, and I'm pretty sure Kuffel Creek
> Nursery also offers
> it. I made some Kerr jelly last summer, and it was
> fantastic.
>
> Centennial crab (DolgoXWealthy) is another tasty
> little apple-crab
> that's well worth planting; fruits are a little
> larger than Kerr, a
> little sweeter, but less aromatic.
>
> Lucky
>
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