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["Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>]

I'm a couple weeks ahead of Jim in ripening here along the 
Wisconsin-Illinois border.  My Sweet Sixteens and  Honeycrisps were picked 
yesterday.  I have a mystery apple grafted on to Bud 9 that a nursery sent 
me as a replacement for Sops of Wine.  They actually sent two trees in place 
of SOW, and both were missing tags.  The nursery didn't have records as to 
what they sent.  I finally identified one as Sweet Sixteen.  The other 
mystery apple is as large or larger than Sweet Sixteen, deep red (almost 
black), crisp, juicy and sweet.  It was ripe and picked yesterday, too. 
Does anyone have a clue to what it could be?
Doreen Howard

Jim Fruth wrote:
>    My Haralson and Sweet 16 are hardly showing signs of ripening.  Last
> week I finally got to harvest the McIntosh and about half of the Honey
> Crisp.  My Summer apples were all a month late too with the exception of
> Yellow Transparent which ripened right on time/Early August.