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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (1204)	10/14/2001 10:01:37 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3495

Finally made it to the annual apple tasting at Monticello yesterday. Tom Burford, "Professor Apple," isn't as old as I thought - he's in his late 60's, so I hope he will be around for a while. His family owned the apple orchard he and his brother operated until recently, so that explains all the old varieties - he say he was almost born under an apple tree but his mother made it back to the house. There were about 20 varieties of antique apples which were cut up and passed around on plates. Finally got to try some of the famous ones, and I agree with those who believe that Cox's Orange Pippin is the best. Afterwards we bought some trees from the plant shop at Monticello - a Cox, an Esophus Spitzenburg, a Roxbury Russet, and a Hewe's crab apple. I rate Cox and Spitz the highest, and my husband rated the Cox and the Roxbury the highest. At the top of my list was also the Calville Blanc d'Hivers, and the Albermarle (Newtown) Pippin, but there were none at the plant shop, and I could not have fit more in, anyway. The Hewe's crab is a local variety which is highly rated for making hard cider. I bought another Brown Turkey fig tree, too, so that makes four. At Monticello they don't cover them in the winter, they just let them grow, and they are very tall - maybe ten feet tall, as tall as they get in New Orleans. But they do grown on a stepped terrace on the top of the mountain facing southeast, so they don't get the north wind at the back, and the cold air slides down the mountain. Mr. Burford said that Cox and similar varieties don't like our hot weather, but will do better planted on a northern slope, which I do have - but will have to dig up the azaleas, as I have been planning on doing anyway, and replant them in the woods. The northern foundation of the house is all planted with large white azaleas, and so is about half the southern foundation. I love azaleas, but all white is very boring to me. If I had planted them, I would have planted a mixture of colors, with white only as an accent. So I don't have a problem with digging them up - in fact, I may not replant all of them - may offer some of them to friends and neighbors - my guess is that we have a dozen large white azalea bushes.