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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> I completely agree that Yellow Delicious has suffered in flavor in the 
> course of breeding the russetting out of it.


This may be a foolish question, but how can they breed the russetting 
out of a particular cultivar and still call it the same cultivar? I 
thought that all trees of a certain cultivar were clones of the 
original. Not so?

Thanks,

Bill
Lincoln, NE

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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that 
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