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.
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