[Sca-cooks] On apples

[Johnna Holloway]

You might like this. My just published updated 2015 article on Apples appears here:

http://rivenvale.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Rivenvale-Review-October-2015.pdf#page5

Johnnae

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> On Oct 21, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Lijsbet de Keukere <lijsbet.vandelfthout at gmail.com> wrote:
> What? The newbie has another question? Inconceivable! :)
> Someone new to my barony lives on land that was once a cider orchard, and
> many of the trees are still standing. The variety, they say, is Malus
> sylvestris, which, if I'm looking in the right places, is a wild crab apple
> originating in Northern Europe. The owner says this variety can be traced
> back to the colonial era in America (the earliest mention I was able to
> find was a 1799 botany book. Snipped
>  But before I get too far
> ahead of myself, is anyone here familiar with this variety of apple?
> Thank you for humoring me, and for your patience