[blam]

FYI.

[paulat]

I LOVE this, blam!

[null and void]

Would it kill the Telegraph to publish a picture?

[jdm]

Pomologist?

Or maybe that's pompomologist. Who cares. The pic is a good one. :O)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Well, how do you like THEM apples? :O)

[passionfruit]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"But if you like a sharp and crisp taste"

It sounds like a winesap.
Winesaps makes the best apple pie and I like them raw also!

[uglybiker]

The identity of an apple variety that has been growing in Dorset for 200 years ...

Whew! For a second there I thought somebody'd been digging around in the back of my fridge! ;-)

[SIDENET]

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.

[dinasour]

Pomologists bite off more than they can chew.

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.

[GladesGuru]

"A completely new variety is very, very rare."

Not so fast, there. As I remember, a new variety of Golden Delicious was found growing in the Bahamas not too long ago. Nothing like an apple that can grow in the heat of the tropics.

[JockoManning]

Interesting. Thanks.

jm

[tlb]

If the scientists are serious about identifying the apple, I'd recommend they take core samples.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. A real slice of history.

"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."

IMHO, the latter. The rest of the variety croaked out (or were bulldozed) long, long ago.

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