To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hampshire apple.
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:57:05 -0600
At 10:12 PM 12/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
A week or two back
someone asked about Hampsire Apple. The enclosed picture came from
Victoria Caron to Lucky Pittman and now to the NAFEX net. I have no
further info.
Jerry,
The photo you posted is a picture of Victoria's "Hampshire
Red", a seedling of Hampshire she selected, which I suspect has a
red-fleshed crab as the pollen parent - foliage is purple tinted(at least
early in the year), blossoms are rosy pink, bark is dark, wood is dark
purple.
Vic says the fruit is small - comparable to the "Lady" apple in
size, with good flavor, but is not red-fleshed.