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[Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>]

I grow the original Red Delicious. It is relatively pale red with a lot of yellow background and has a rich, honey-like sweetness. Also quite juicy. I rate it as a very good apple but not one that compares with my favorites, such as Jonagold and Macoun, at their best.

Lee Reich, PhD

http://leereich.com/

Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On Oct 18, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Douglas Woodard wrote:

Years ago I bought some Red Delicious in St. Catharines' farmers' market 

from a small grower, probably shortly after picking, which were striped 

and not very brightly coloured. I'd guess they were the original or 

close to it. The flesh was was hard, crisp and very sweet although 

somewhat bland. They may have been picked at a non-optimal time or given 

too much nitrogen, or maybe the weather wasn't sunny or hot enough to 

bring out their best. It did originate in the midwest after all.

I've eaten Red Prince Delicious grown in Prince Edward County which were 

pleasantly flavoured and better than other red sports although nothing 

special.

Doug Woodard

St. Catharines, Ontario

Niagara Peninsula

Michael Nave wrote:

I hope future generations never know the taste of Red

"Delicious" (and what a fraudulent name that was). It

is almost single handedly responsible for the decline

in apple consumption in the latter half of the 20th

century. No one ever ate a red delicious apple and

said "yum, I need to eat more apples." It's the worst

tasting apple I have ever experienced. It's not a

plain old sugary apple. It's a plain old tasteless

apple.

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