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  • From: "Jim Freeman" <jf@gctruck.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Best Very Late Apples
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:33:12 -0400


Hi Doug,

I have not tried Spartan. I was interested and asked our sources about
it last year, but was told it will not do well in the South. I have
debunked that myth on a few northern apples, but did not get around to
trying Spartan yet. Why not try it? Has anyone in the South had any
experience with Spartan? If I do not hear anything negative, I will try
to order some ASAP for trial. Thanks for the suggestion.

While I was in BC this summer, I noted several varieties that I have
never seen before such as King's. Do you know of a source of trees in
the US for "BC" apples?

Jim
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:23:03 -0400
From: Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>

Jim, have you tried Spartan? It was bred by Agriculture Canada at
Summerland BC in the 1920s I think, McIntosh x Newtown. It produces a
quite high quality apple in the sunny hot dry Okanagan Valley. I like
the Ontario grown fruit but it seems to have taken second place here to
Empire. It's said to have some scab resistance.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario




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