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."
It's like those French have a different word for everything.
"My kids were interested in this new species...but the jerk you are applauding means I can't let them read this thread. "
In other words, we must write to the level of four year olds. I don't think so.
Go start another site, call it freerepublicforkids.com
But please don't reduce the rough and tumble of FreeRepublic to a daycare center. At times the humor here can be even a bit risque, but the topics being discussed are often nitty gritty. For example, I follow the gsting corruption scandal here in Vegas, would you have me squelch my information on the lapdancers who serviced the politicians Harry Reid supported? Just so your kids don't hear about pimps and whores?
"You are a jerk. Are women only sex objects? "
The answer would be yes. Next question.
Curious - is the reason that your kids cannot see this driven by your spiritual convictions?
hehe
You, too, are a jerk.
I have no idea why juveniles have to post half nude pictures of women that have nothing to do with the topic. For sure it compromises FR's family rating.
Y"ou, too, are a jerk."
And you are a tiny person with the reasoning skills of floriensis.
Oh, okay.
Heck no! There's the cooking and the cleaning too.
Early nomination for 2007 FR Post of the Year.
You dont let your kids watch football????
I refer you to post number 103 of this thread. Get a life.
I have a huge collection of baseball caps. Does that make me a pompodorologist?
That's no dog. It's a powder-puff with legs and a tail. :)
Generally, they are not amused.
That's OK, because I am.
Science Traces Roots Of ‘Traditional English’ Apple Back To Central Asia
The Telegraph (UK) | 2-25-2007 | Richard Gray
Posted on 02/24/2007 7:38:25 PM PST by blam
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