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["Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>]

We have a few apples still on the trees.  Spur Ark. Black, Black Limbertwig, 
Newton Pippin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Late ripening apples


> 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.
>
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