I like fresh apples, very much. The ones from the store are always grainy or mushy, if ripe. It is almost impossible to buy good apples, anymore. You are fortunate to have fresh apples. I'll look uo hawthorne trees later and see if it is what I remember. Thanks.........
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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cherry question
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:33 PM
>I don't like cherries and don't know anything
about growing them, but; in
>cold weather areas like yours, apples should grow well.
I have seen old
>heirloom type apple trees with apples about the same
size as cherries and
>real thorny (I mean dangerously thorny) limbs. They
trees are not large
>like a regular apple or peach tree. They were called
'hog apples' , but i
>don't know their real name; but they were tasty....
>
I have apple trees (some heirloom), peach and pear trees. I
want to add a
couple cherry trees; I prefer sweet cherries, but I think
I'm a little too
far north. I've hear of some pie cherries coming out of
Canada that are as
sweet as sweet cherries, but I can't track down a
source.
The tree you describe sounds like a Hawthorn tree; it's
related to apples. I
have a couple on my property, but they are old and not
producing well. The
fruit are called "haws".
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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