August 30, 2008
It's a Hackworth
Key figured that apple tree out, I reckon. A Hackworth. Originated in Lavonia, Georgia (40 miles up the road) in the early 1900's when some seeds from the orchards of a horticulturist named Dr. Nicodemus Hackworth floated downstream and hooked up, as the youngsters say. Hackworth eventually developed many varieties.
Here's a description:
...a great summer apple which "bears fruit every day in August." Fruit medium with yellow skin overlaid with a few red stripes and splashes. Flesh is yellow, granular, and aromatic.
That's a perfect description. A guess that makes it an "heirloom". I'll be charging for a piece of that wood, just like all my wood. Meaning, cheap. But you'll be happy satisfied. I garontee.
Have you ever done grafting? I haven't. The lady across the road is a master gardener. I might have to ask her how to go about it. If you'd consider a wood swap. If that could even be done.
Posted by: PeggyU at August 31, 2008 1:17 AMMystery solved. Now I can get some sleep.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at August 31, 2008 12:28 PMGentleman apple grower. The perfect occupation for Velociman in his dotage. Good on you, Veloc.
Posted by: rankin' rob at August 31, 2008 1:25 PMGentleman apple grower ... or pomologist? There's apparently even a name for people who study apples!
Posted by: PeggyU at August 31, 2008 2:59 PMI thought a pomologist was an aficionado of pomades. AKA hair jellies. Like Ulysses Everet McGill.
Posted by: Velociman at August 31, 2008 3:09 PMWhy then, you'd be a bona fide pomologist, wouldn't you?
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Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at September 1, 2008 8:34 AMAh, but is he a Dapper Dan man? Stock up on antimacassars, that's all I'm sayin'.
Posted by: LauraB at September 1, 2008 3:20 PMWhere's Joan, anyone??? Only taking time off on account of the storm, I hope!
Posted by: PeggyU at September 2, 2008 1:35 PMWell, she threatened to get some sleep, and nobody remonstrated, so I say she's hibernating.
Posted by: Velociman at September 2, 2008 6:03 PMYou must be in a good mood these days...no Mutant and Tuco on the sidebar...posts about heirloom apples instead of monkeys, bullwhips, and sideshow freaks...
I don't know whether to be happy for you or sad for us Insipids. But at least you're writing.
Posted by: Elisson at September 2, 2008 6:31 PMMy guess, Elisson ... and it's only a conjecture: He's saving it up for something involving all of those elements - mutant heirloom-apple-eating monkeys brandishing bullwhips and riding hirsuit midgets dressed in dirndls or something ribald like that.
Posted by: PeggyU at September 3, 2008 4:20 AM