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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

It seems to be intermediate between Goldrush and Pink Lady in fireblight 
susceptibility.  Pink Lady is highly susceptible here and Goldrush is 
moderately susceptible here in the sub-tropics.

Anton
Zone 8 where it hit 75 degrees today- weird even for here.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
>Sent: Dec 27, 2007 1:30 PM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Calville blanc? Chroncel?
>
>I've had Calville Blanc.  It's an oddly shaped apple, pale green to 
>more or less white, about like a Yellow Transparent.  Late, rather on 
>the tart side, with tender flesh.  Great cooking, moderate as an eating 
>apple.  Cooks to a smooth fluffy consistency.   Good resistance to scab 
>here in Oregon.  I don't know about fireblight as we don't get that 
>here worth noticing.  When self pollinated it throws  seedlings that 
>have considerable similarity to the parent.  The late Larry McGraw, 
>founder of the Home Orchard Society and co-founder of NAFEX (he and 
>Milo Gibson were both in the same area) rescued an apple by Fort 
>Vancouver in Washington that was the oldest known apple on the west 
>coast, having been planted by the traders when the fort was a Hudson's 
>Bay outpost.  That apple looks very much like it was a seedling of 
>Calville Blanc.
>-Lon Rombough
>Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
>http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
>"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
>For even more grape lessons, go to  http://www.grapeschool.com
>For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.com
>
>On Dec 27, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Dianne Ste;phany wrote:
>
>Hi
>I just got my Seeds of Change catalogue and they have afew heritage 
>apple trees offered.  The Cox Orange Pippin and the Calville 
>Blanc caught my eyes.
> 
>Anyone have any experience with Calville Blanc?   It sounds very 
>similar to a Chroncel -color, sweet, high vitamin C -except that I 
>remember Chroncel as being an early apple and this says that it matures 
>"very late".  Does "very late" put it in the same category as Granny 
>Smith?  I didn't know that about Granny Smith when I planted it for my 
>husband, and we have  gotten only a very few ripe apples, and fire 
>blight loves this tree.  
> 
>Thank you all for a great year of information and discussion- I love 
>reading the posts.
> 
>Dianne Stephany, zone 5
>Rochester NY -- catalogue browsing and winter 
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