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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

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You could do worse for a semi-early apple.............

 

Francis Fenton pulled one off a tree. (zone 4 Mercer, Maine)

An ordinary looking apple of average size.

 

He took out his jack knife, and cut off a wedge for my wife and I.

It was nice; light, crisp, not too sour, not too sweet, good 'appley' aroma.

Very white, fine grained flesh; not mealy at all. Not a tooth buster, either.

 

It won't blow your mind, really, but it's all-around decent and he says a reliable cropper.

 

Murph