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from Kay contains these words:

I seem to think however that there may be some truth in it, as I've
never seen
specific cooking apples anywhere else in Europe or the States.

But there again, how many varieties of dessert apples have you seen,
compared to the hundreds in existence?

We had 36 fruit trees in our garden, most of them apples, and most of
those eaters. Apart from the apples there was a Conference pear, a big
cooking pear, another which must have been a pollinator, 'cos the pears
were like cannonballs, and even after cooking overnight in the bottom
oven in the Aga, were still like cannonballs. There was also a
greengage. (And that was usually it - a greengage...)

That made 32 apple trees: two Bramleys; 1 Codling; 1 Charles Ross; a
russet of some sort; 1 Cox's Orange Pipin; 1 Blenheim; 1 - oh, forgotten
the name now- early, wine red, small, sweet and flattish shape - could
be eaten when the pips were stil white and the skin still partially
green.

Unfortunately we didn't know the names of many of them, and some of them
I've never come across since. They were 'the red streaky one in the
laurel hedge' or 'the one next to the garage', or the 'cider apple'
(wich wasn't, but I made cider from them as no-one ever ate them) and
so-on.

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