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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Liberty apple (NY)
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:28:21 -0500

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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