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In a message dated 11/6/2012 7:29:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ehilborn@mebtel.net writes:

> Johnny Appleseed didn't walk all over the midwest with a sack of apple 
> seeds simply because he was hoping for a juicy bite of fruit a few years 
> hence. Most likely, he was dreaming of cider, which had a crucial place in 
> the 
> American frontier. Alcohol ...
> 

A few years back at an annual meeting in Ohio a speaker, don't remember 
who, said the reason Johnny Appleseed planted so many apple orchards was 
because in some states land was being given away at no cost or nearly so. But 
one 
had to do something with that land you couldn't just hold it. So Johnny 
would get a parcel, and plant apple trees. If authorities checked, he was 
fulfilling that requirement. 

That isn't to take away from Johnny. He was an apple authority and went 
around the country helping folks and propagated popular varieties by 
grafting.  
And, I'd bet he enjoyed some sparkling (fermenting) apple cider too.  

Jerry
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Subject: [nafex] American Persimmon varieties
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For those with the following American persimmon varieties, do these ripen fu=
lly (w/out residual astringency)? - and if so, where are you growing them (z=
one, etc.).

-John Rick
-Geneva Red

Thanks,
Steve=