Or maybe that's pompomologist. Who cares. The pic is a good one. :O)
Posted on 01/29/2007 6:40:07 PM PST by blam
Pomologists bite off more than they can chew with 200-year-old apple mystery
By Richard Savill
Last Updated: 2:01am GMT 30/01/2007
The identity of an apple variety that has been growing in Dorset for 200 years has left fruit specialists baffled.
For generations, the family of Diana Toms has affectionately referred to the fruit as Granfer's Apple, after her great, great grandfather who planted the tree in 1803.
The family has asked pomologists to help establish the cooking apple's identity but they have so far been unable to solve the mystery.
Mrs Toms, 83, said: "I am rather pleased it is baffling all these people. If nobody knows what it is then it should be officially called Granfer's Apple. I would like that."
Mrs Toms' great, great grandfather, Isaac Bugler, grew the tree in an orchard attached to the family home in the village of Beaminster, Dorset. Mrs Toms said: "When I was a child I learnt to catch by standing under the tree. My father would climb up and drop the apples down to me. It is a wonderful cooking apple and my family has used it in cakes and pies for years and years. But if you like a sharp and crisp taste, then the apple is equally good for eating."
Mrs Toms called in specialists at the Symondsbury Apple Day in Dorset but they could not identify it. David Squirrell, of the Symondsbury Apple Project, said: "Its appearance doesn't match up with any other variety. There are lots of things about it, the shape, closed eye and length of stalk. "It might be a new variety that nobody knows about but it is probably an old one that was forgotten about many, many years ago. A completely new variety is very, very rare."
FYI.
I LOVE this, blam!
Would it kill the Telegraph to publish a picture?
Or maybe that's pompomologist. Who cares. The pic is a good one. :O)
Well, how do you like THEM apples? :O)
You're a jerk. My kids read FR.
I would love to see pictures! My husband and I own an old ranch in the California mountains. We have an orchard of heirloom apples. Planted 100 years ago, we still haven't identified all of the varieties of apples we grow yet.
LOL! Now go to your room!
A picture is worth a thousand words.
They aren't old enough then..
Get over it. It was a great pic and I would be fine with my 8 & 9 yr old boys seeing it.
That's a peach.
My kids were interested in this new species...but the jerk you are applauding means I can't let them read this thread.
Grow up!
From the standpoint of PoMo, I'm not sure that we can say that the apple actually has an objective reality, and may not really exist at all.
Sorry. I thought it was G-rated. Nothing you wouldn't see on network TV after Noon on any given Saturday or Sunday.
I saw Pomologist and immediately thought that Pompomologist could be used to describe a cheerleader. It seemed original.
Oh well, I can't win them all.
I feel sorry for them. Innocence is a short time.
If the apple doesn't exist, neither does gravity...
Whew! For a second there I thought somebody'd been digging around in the back of my fridge! ;-)
It's what I've long suspected.
Yeah. I should instead let them see women in burkas. Much more wholesome.
Planted in 1803? Cool. I didn't think that apple trees lived that long. Hopefully, they will save either some seeds or cuttings to establish an available heirloom variety.
Last I checked, I'm fully grown, end then some. Your children can't be shown a picture of a cheerleader? And if they asked, you would find the act of explaining the context too challenging? OK. Sorry. Bye.
I also like southern Italian food, making me a pomodorologist.
(Pomo d’oro, literally apple of gold, a tomato: tomato being, in fact, old slang for a girl, so we’ve come full circle).
You know what!?! I don't let my kids on the internet period. What the hell are you thinking!?!?
I don't care if it is FR. My kids play outside, watch TV, play games, do homework, etc. but the internet is not connected to their computer. Get off your freakin high horse and not let your kids on the net.
They won't see the cheerleader because they aren't here period. God, I hate moralistic people that want to shove their values down my throat. It's even worse when they don't have control of their own house.
You scored a +1 Instant Win on my books.
God help this tree from a fungus. I planted three apple trees about 20 years ago. They grew well and produced a good number of apples. Then, two years ago a fungus entered the base of the trees and killed them. The heat and moisture here in Mississippi is conducive for fungus.
That is kind of funny
I guess you've never taken your kids to the beach. ???
They see worse and hear worse on commercials during the evening news programs and on radio. Male enhancers, Viagra, women's personal hygiene products.
I've always had problems with my apple trees getting diseases. They seem to be the most susceptible of any of the more common fruit trees.
Apples don't come true from seed, so rooted cutting will be needed if they want to propagate the same tree with the same fruit.
That is a long damn time for an apple tree to live and bear fruit.
you've got to be kidding. it's a cheerleader. football teams have them. basketball teams have them. middle schools have them. it was funny.
A tree planted in 1803 is surely a seedling and therefore a new (different) variety. At that time is was thought that grafts would only live as long as the original tree so few trees were grafted.
Just set your browser to not display pictures, let them read the thread, and then reset the browser.
I can understand that you can avoid TVs and keep out those images, but do you blindfold them when you drive past billboards?
What do you do about naked animals?
The French word for potato is "Pomme de Terre" or, "Apple of the Earth".
The French word for "French Fry" is "Pomme Frite".
What is the French word for "Fried Apple"?
Sorry, I have never had an appropriate forum for this question.
Those apples are certainly ripe!
I give up?
Oh, give it a rest. I guess your "kids" have never been to the beach??? The cheerleader outfit certainly covers more than any bikini.
Can you explain to me why a picture of a cheerleader is relevant to an articles about apples. One of the problems with FR in the last few years is the overabundance of meaningless "joke" responses. Some threads have no posts about the actual article, just "joke" replies. It kind of makes the point of the sight meaningless.
I notice your post makes no references to Apples. Please try to stay on topic.
It wasn't the apple on the tree that caused all the trouble - it was the peach on the ground.
I didn't say that it was relevant. However, when people challenge me on how I act as a parent!?!? Give me a freakin' break.
FR has been that way since it started. I don't like it but i'm certainly not going to act like a bulletin board is suddenly going to be managed. These things (even before the internet) were unmanaged. What makes it different today?
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