Don:
I am quite surprised by your positive comments on
Yellow Transparent, seeing that you are in a relatively warm climate. I
have heard over and over that Yellow T has a far better taste in colder
climate...
Hélène
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:28
PM
Subject: [nafex] Irish Peach Apple
Gianni:
I had an Irish Peach tree
obtained from the old Grootendorst Nursery (the forerunner of Southmeadow,
I believe) in 1979. It started to bear in about '84, but was not very
productive and the apples were extremely buggy and misshapen. I would
describe the apples it produced as just plain sour (or should I say,
acidic), and I would not have classified them as "dessert" apples at
all. In addition, as noted by Claude, it is a tip bearer, blossom
shy, and I am not in love with those although I seem to have quite a few of
them. (This spring I have discovered one that is NOT a tip bearer ---
Shamrock --- which has blooms all over the laterals in year four, but
that's another story). Anyway, when I planted the Irish
Peach, I knew nothing about the apple, (this was in the early days, when I
was really, really ignorant about apple growing, as opposed to now when I
am only really ignorant) but when I found that it ripened shortly after
Yellow Transparent (our principal applesauce producer), and was not, in my
view, as good as Y.T. in most respects, I decided to take it out. It
also had extremely twiggy growth, and was a major pruning job every
year. I replaced it with a Braeburn, which I am also unhappy with,
but for different reasons. As we all know, apple
varieties respond in quite different ways to different climatic
conditions. And there can be quite a degree of variability in
performance of different trees even of the same variety and
rootstock. So it may be the Irish Peach would do much better for you
up there in N.H.than it did here in N. Virginia. Personally, I would
not bother with it, since there are so many early varieties that fill the
bill for sauce and pies, such as Yellow Transparent, Summer Rambo,
and even Astrachan or Early Cortland. It might be good for cider
blending, except it comes way to early for the cidermaking operation, and
as Claude observed, it only keeps for a few weeks. So I can't
supply any scions of Irish Peach, but you might be able to talk me out of a
few of Shamrock next spring, and I think those would make you very happy if
you like lots of blossoms. Finally, I have to confess,
the only reason I planted Irish Peach is because my wife is of the Irish
persuasion. It was not a good enough reason. BTW Gianni,
did you know that the Irish invented pizza? Best Rgds, Don Yellman, Great
Falls, VA
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