"Rod" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:14:33 +0100, "r.p.mcmurphy"
wrote:

hi all, i have a small piece of land that has been called the orchard
since
1826 but it has no apple trees now...it has been lawned and under used
for
years. id like to grow some apple trees on it again...but the apples
have
to be red skined and crisp like an empire or a braeburn or my other half
wont eat them! any sugestions?

ta

steve

See if she likes Discovery - it'll be in the shops anytime now. It's
an early apple (first of the season for us) it doesn't keep but it
holds well on the tree so you can pick it over 2 or 3 weeks, red one
side, greenish the other, crisp if freshly picked, not overly sweet,
unique flavour - you like it or you don't. On a dwarfing stock it's
absolutely reliable, wonderful crop of lovely looking apples every
year.
Rod

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http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html


yes lovely apples but the wasps love them before they are even ripe
.........my entire tree has been devoured by the wasps and now they are
starting on the cooking apples !!!

Spartan is a super apple .......very late picker ......keeps fairly well
does not get attacked by wasps
very crisp and deep red but not the tang of braeburns