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Malus Baccata (sic) x Sylvestris (sic) Sylvestrice Plast Ant. "Fuld

It’s in the caption. Difficult to make out— there’s a hasty unclosed a in baccata (the species names are is also capitalized, but we’ll let that slide).

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Oh gosh, yes. I think these are auto-generated using file names or some other metadata that are stripped out by Bsky.

How can you tell?

Tastes vary and I admit to passing these by in September. But they retain crunch and other qualities better than some this time of year.

BTW I know some really hard-core Cortland fans, shoutout to you!

Cortland improves, McIntosh declines, in the winter Cortland keeps better, and arguably improves, into the winter months. Especially that crunch!

Cortland #apples age very well into the winter:

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Seek no further.

This in every state please.

Especially mine.

There do need to be checks and balances

Beautiful! And here’s a black oxford from our orchard. Extraordinary apples, btw.

Yui japanese apple

www.haradasyubyo.jp/2018/11/984/

You have my attention

northern spy apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1922

northern spy apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1922

The orchard on Argilla Road Author coaxes balky farming equipment, handles harsh pesticides, and wrangles bees, with the fate of the farm in the balance in the Great Depression.

May I suggest The Orchard (Metropolitan Books, 1995, and Bantam (paper) 1997).

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Someone did tons of research about you yet has no idea of whom they have chosen around which to try to fuck.

Started and ran a chain of lunch cafeterias in NYC

Well, this is a first, and a rather delightful one at that. Thank you Adam, for your very kind words. Much appreciated 😊

Thank you for your blog!

Or skip review and cut right to the chase orchardnotes.com

Apples on the Web: Orchard Notes Turpin grows apples near Manchester (UK). He plumbs the depths of a whole colony of rabbit holes to share the wonders on the other side.

Very hard to do justice, but here is my review (& shoutout) re @orchardnotes.com eclectic website and blog!
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What an absolutely gorgeous, sexy, smashing looking apple that everybody hates these days

Downing (1872) seems to concur with the illustration rather than the photo...

Maybe the modern version you sampled was a bit more sun-blushed, or just growing in different soil conditions, which is why it was more highly-coloured?

I could go either way. Watercolor and description are both pretty different from my sample. Strongest argument contra: mine was really good. Hard to believe it's not a named variety, or that growers would not know what it was.

Like, "is this a Cox? I can't tell."

Celestia ** This old midwestern variety was lost for decades before it was found and revived.

Not saying I got it right but the Celestia I found looks pretty different
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Are we sure about this one?

Thanks! Did not know.

Illustration of man grafting.

Winslow Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. Born in 1836 he became prominent American oil painter. Winslow Homer captured the practical side of orchard life in this wood engraving "Spring Farm Work-Grafting" published in Harper's Weekly, Apr 30 1870. #apple #grafting #art

First Gutenberg (the WP interface, not the man), now this.

Yes!

The invention of Red Delicious The patent details five ways in which the sport improves on Delicious. The words "taste" or "flavor" or "texture" do not appear in that section.

So, Many.
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