Sheldon wrote:
> George wrote:
>> Kathleen wrote:
>>> Terry wrote:
>>>> We have a second house that used to be our primary residence. �Planted
>>>> Red Delicious (grafted a Yellow Delicious onto it) and Fuji trees. The
>>>> doggone things never produced much over the last ten years.
>>> Red Delicious? �Why? �Unless homegrown Red Delicious are like, 100 x
>>> better than what you buy in stores, why bother when there are dozens of
>>> tastier varieties out there?
>>> I consider the Red Delicious available locally, be they from the
>>> supermarket or local groves, to be "apple-shaped objects"... �Certainly
>>> nothing I'd deliberately eat.
>> I agree on the red delicious. Fuji apples need another variety close by
>> for pollination. Yellow delicious is commonly used for that purpose.
>> Thats probably the job of the grafted yellow delicious in his case.
>
> Nope. Apple trees are always grafted, that's the only way to produce
> true to form fruit.


Nope what? I didn't claim anything about grafting and some apple trees
need other species as pollinators and some don't. Fuji needs another
species.

And most all apple trees need a pollinator. The
> red delicious I buy from local orchards are excellent, but when
> purchased out of season they are very poor quality... delicious apples
> do not store well and because the distributors know this they do not
> horde the biggest and best for selling many weeks and months later,
> they sell them quickly while they can command hight prices. They bag
> up the smallest and those picked prematurely and sell them at low
> prices hoping to be rid of them quickly. As with many food products
> the best apples and the best of all fruit commands the best prices so
> those are reserved for fancy schmancy restaurants, classy hotels,
> cruise ships, caterers, premium priced mail order companys like
> David's, etc. Unless you live in an apple growing region you're not
> going to find quality apples unless you're willing to pay premium
> prices... NY State apples are probably the best on the planet, but
> still there are only a few weeks when quality delicious apples are
> available, all other times only those small heavily waxed tasteless
> mealy ones are available. Delicious apples are not pie apples in any
> case. Delicious apples make the best Waldorf Salad.
>
>
> Waldorf salad [WAWL-dorf]
> Created at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the 1890s, the original
> version of this salad contained only apples, celery and mayonnaise.
> Chopped walnuts later became an integral part of the dish. Waldorf
> salad is usually served on top of a bed of lettuce.
>
> � Copyright Barron's Educational Services, Inc. 1995 based on THE FOOD
> LOVER'S COMPANION, 2nd edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst.