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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Alan Haigh wrote:
> That's pretty hilarious, "one of the worlds rarest apples", as if 
> that's an accomplishment for an apple.  I can show you hundreds of 
> rarer types of apples, so rare they haven't even been named.  I just 
> call them seedlings but if I name one it will be as rare as any apple 
> tree in the history of appledom.  Talk about marketing.

That's about what I was thinking. There must be a million seedlings that 
are one of a kind. As soon as someone takes a scion and grafts a 2nd 
tree, then that one isn't even tied with all the others as one of the 
rarest. After a few thousand, it's downright common.

Steve