Thanks, Jan! I never thought of searching for "heirloom varieties". It does
sound like your "Twenty Ounce Pippin", you can make a deep dish pie from one
apple, but it is very green and very tart, too tart to eat raw. I think I
have found it by searching for heirloom apple trees! Thank you for your
help!

Gloria
PS. When are you coming to my house? :-)

"Jan Flora" wrote in message
...
I think the variety you're alluding to is the "Twenty Ounce Pippin." It's
an
heirloom apple variety. You can make a pie out of one apple. Is that the
one?

My pop had a tree in his backyard, in the Mother Lode in California. There
were
only two of those trees in town, and some yuppiescum bought the other
place
and pollarded the other tree. =:-O

If you know how to graft, I can try to get you some scionwood from that
tree
in Archie's yard. I have no idea how available that variety is
commercially.
I live in Alaska now (and grow apple trees up here), but I'm still way
into saving
old heirloom fruit varieties, when I can. (Boycott "Red Delicious." They
suck.)

If you don't know how to graft, I'll come to your house and teach you. Or
you
can get your local Cooperative Extension dude/dudette to teach you. It's
easy.

Jan


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