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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

If you find it's missing aroma, you might want to try picking it a  
week later.  This is not from my own experience, but from my research  
when I looked into what trees I wanted to plant.

I can tell you that grown in Princeton NJ, and allowed to become over- 
ripe on the tree, Liberty has the strongest and most complex aroma  
I've ever had in an apple.  That particular apple was impossibly mealy  
and I didn't finish it.  But it made me think that Liberty would be a  
good apple to grow for a cider mix.

Ginda

On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:

> Interesting to find that Liberty is doing well in parts of Canada.   
> Too bad for Cornell this success lagged behind pattent rights.  I  
> think that Cornell made a mistake by focusing their breeding program  
> on Macintosh-type apples.  If this is where you're search begins, as  
> far a apple taste is concerned, Liberty would have some very strong  
> attributes- taste and especially texture-wise.  To me, however,  
> Macintosh is a more distintive apple, especially the right strain  
> off the tree at the right time.  Liberty is harder, but it doesn't  
> have the aroma and just as importantly, that appealing Mac crunch  
> that Macintosh genes delivered to Macoun and Honeycrisp.  
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