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Thread #105657   Message #3468052
Posted By: Ed T
18-Jan-13 - 09:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your favorite antique apple varieties
Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite antique apple varieties
As a lad, we had a Red Astrachan apple tree in our orchard, which I would climb for the crisp, sour variety. I believe someone already mentioned it. I recall they had red colours throughout the white flesh.

We also had an early variety of yellow transparent, that locals called August apples, many varities of crab apples and sweet apples, not sure of the variety (could have been Delblush.