Hello Claude -
As we’ve talked about evaluating seedlings, looking for ‘outliers’ has always
been mentioned - breeding with parents that we consider the best desert apples
produce a lot of ‘pretty good’ progeny and very few seedlings that lie outside
the parameters of the parents - but there
As it seems some discussion is starting on the topic of the development
of new cider apple varieties, I may add a few thoughts.
First it is important to understand how much easier it is to find a
valuable cider apple than it is for a superior dessert apple. The reason
is that for a dessert
