[Sca-cooks] On apples

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Sorry it took so long to follow up on these comments - it's been a busy few
weeks!

Thank you so much for the responses. It looks like most of this year's crop
is gone by now, but I am now looking forward to next year. And now, there
is plenty of time to prepare!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aodh highlighted about these particular crabapples:
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> <<< [1] On the old trees I knew of, these were not 'minor inconvenience'
> thorns as on brambles, nor 'painful but dealable with' thorns as on roses.
> These were great big two-to-four inch spikes, like blackthorn but even
> bigger, that were a danger to life and limb. I still have a sizable scar on
> my temple, just at the hairline, from where one of them gouged me. >>>
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> LOL. I assume that these thorns were some of the first things to be bred
> out of crabapples as they got cultivated and bred with other apples. This
> would help point to how old they might be, although todays genetic
> deciphering would of course be more certain.
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> Rather useful to keep ground animals from eating your fruit, when you are
> the tree. Not so good if you are the farmer. Although I guess it does help
> keep little boys from pilfering your apples. :-)
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