From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apple flavorings and plum curculio
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:12:11 -0600
I completely agree that Yellow Delicious has suffered in flavor in the
course of breeding the russetting out of it.
This may be a foolish question, but how can they breed the russetting
out of a particular cultivar and still call it the same cultivar? I
thought that all trees of a certain cultivar were clones of the
original. Not so?
Thanks,
Bill
Lincoln, NE
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that
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