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apple bore is a term I'm more comfortable with,

While you're here, have you any idea of the name of an apple fitting
this description?

Small fruit.
Very early.
Magenta skin (all over) when ripe.
Crisp and sweet even when unripe.
Flattish, Tangerine-shape (and size) reminiscent of an overfilled inner-tube
Deep pit at the stalk
Less deep pit at the other end
Doesn't keep well.
strong 'fruity' scent

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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While you're here, have you any idea of the name of an apple fitting
this description?

Small fruit.
Very early.
Magenta skin (all over) when ripe.
Crisp and sweet even when unripe.
Flattish, Tangerine-shape (and size) reminiscent of an overfilled inner-tube
Deep pit at the stalk
Less deep pit at the other end
Doesn't keep well.
strong 'fruity' scent

Could it be 'Discovery'?
'Discovery' is one of the earliest (August), is deep crimson and
roundish/flattish like a tangerine/inner-tube. Mine are bigger than a
tangerine, I would say but I think size varies with conditions, age of
tree etc.
I haven't studied how deep the cavity is - and have eaten mine now, so
can't check. Apart from size, the rest fits.
Janet G

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While you're here, have you any idea of the name of an apple fitting
this description?

Small fruit.
Very early.
Magenta skin (all over) when ripe.
Crisp and sweet even when unripe.
Flattish, Tangerine-shape (and size) reminiscent of an overfilled
inner-tube
Deep pit at the stalk
Less deep pit at the other end
Doesn't keep well.
strong 'fruity' scent

Could it be 'Discovery'?
'Discovery' is one of the earliest (August), is deep crimson and
roundish/flattish like a tangerine/inner-tube. Mine are bigger than a
tangerine, I would say but I think size varies with conditions, age of
tree etc.

Or possibly Devonshire Quarrenden, or its son Ben's Red. DQ according to
Joan Morgan's Apples: 'Distinctive flavour- of strawberries or winey to
loganberry taste...'

--
Anton

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Or possibly Devonshire Quarrenden, or its son Ben's Red. DQ according to
Joan Morgan's Apples: 'Distinctive flavour- of strawberries or winey to
loganberry taste...'

Thanks indeed. It certainly sounds like DQ - I'll investigate further.
(I want one! And a Charles Ross, and a *REAL* Cox's orange pippin, and a
Bramley, and a Codling. Oh, and a quince.)

The little red apple was 'my tree' as a boy: we had thirty-six mature
fruit trees, a few of which I hanker after having.

Having a narrow garden with a long pipe to a septic tank running down
the middle of it, now, I'll have to be careful where I plant it. 'It'
will have to be a family tree, I think, or cordons down one side. Or
let's be greedy. Both.

Another one we had which I'd like is not so easy to describe: it's a
larger apple, but not huge - about the size of the standard Golden
Disgusting you find in supermarkets (though I understand they are quite
pleasant if picked when ripe). It is slightly more pointed, and could be
slightly uneven or 'puckered' at the sharp end.

It is green with red striping, and when just approaching ripe, is crisp
and juicy with a slight mixed spice flavour, which disappears when the
fruit is fully ripe. At this stage it has white to extremely pale green
flesh.

Fully ripe, it is fairly soft and juicy, with pale cream flesh, and the
green of the skin becomes paler, almost yellow, with more red stripes.

You can't bore *ME* with apples...

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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The message
from "anton" contains these words:

Or possibly Devonshire Quarrenden, or its son Ben's Red. DQ according to
Joan Morgan's Apples: 'Distinctive flavour- of strawberries or winey to
loganberry taste...'

Thanks indeed. It certainly sounds like DQ - I'll investigate further.
(I want one! And a Charles Ross, and a *REAL* Cox's orange pippin,

They're supposed to be disease prone and difficult to grow in a garden.

and a
Bramley, and a Codling. Oh, and a quince.)


Another one we had which I'd like is not so easy to describe: it's a
larger apple, but not huge - about the size of the standard Golden
Disgusting you find in supermarkets (though I understand they are quite
pleasant if picked when ripe). It is slightly more pointed, and could be
slightly uneven or 'puckered' at the sharp end.

Cornish Aromatic?

It is green with red striping, and when just approaching ripe, is crisp
and juicy with a slight mixed spice flavour, which disappears when the
fruit is fully ripe. At this stage it has white to extremely pale green
flesh.

Fully ripe, it is fairly soft and juicy, with pale cream flesh, and the
green of the skin becomes paler, almost yellow, with more red stripes.

You can't bore *ME* with apples...

Presumably the wet summer, but the apples seem *huge* this year. I'm
used to herrings Pippin being large (two apples to a pound), but the
Allingtons Pippin are nearly as big, instead of being merely supermarket
apple size.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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While you're here, have you any idea of the name of an apple fitting
this description?

Small fruit.
Very early.
Magenta skin (all over) when ripe.
Crisp and sweet even when unripe.
Flattish, Tangerine-shape (and size) reminiscent of an overfilled
inner-tube
Deep pit at the stalk
Less deep pit at the other end
Doesn't keep well.
strong 'fruity' scent

Could it be 'Discovery'?
'Discovery' is one of the earliest (August), is deep crimson and
roundish/flattish like a tangerine/inner-tube. Mine are bigger than a
tangerine, I would say but I think size varies with conditions, age of
tree etc.
I haven't studied how deep the cavity is - and have eaten mine now, so
can't check. Apart from size, the rest fits.

ISTR having a Discovery, and IIRC, the one I'm talking about is a much,
much deeper colour, very glossy, much more scented, and a lot smaller.

I don't know how old Discovery is, but the tree these were on must have
been planted at the beginning of last century, say, 1910-1920.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains
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While you're here, have you any idea of the name of an apple fitting
this description?

Small fruit.
Very early.
Magenta skin (all over) when ripe.
Crisp and sweet even when unripe.
Flattish, Tangerine-shape (and size) reminiscent of an overfilled
inner-tube
Deep pit at the stalk
Less deep pit at the other end
Doesn't keep well.
strong 'fruity' scent

Could it be 'Discovery'?
'Discovery' is one of the earliest (August), is deep crimson and
roundish/flattish like a tangerine/inner-tube. Mine are bigger than a
tangerine, I would say but I think size varies with conditions, age of
tree etc.
I haven't studied how deep the cavity is - and have eaten mine now, so
can't check. Apart from size, the rest fits.

ISTR having a Discovery, and IIRC, the one I'm talking about is a much,
much deeper colour, very glossy, much more scented, and a lot smaller.

I don't know how old Discovery is, but the tree these were on must have
been planted at the beginning of last century, say, 1910-1920.

Definitely not 'Discovery' then, as that dates from about 1949.
Something more unsusual by the sound of it.
Janet G