"Gabby" > wrote:


>But back in the days of the dinosaurs when I was growing up there was a
>variety of apples we knew as "August apples". These were green apples, kind
>of mealy and very tart -- I've no idea what they were. We ate them
>sprinkled with salt. It seemed that all the old houses in our village had
>at least one tree of those; unfortunately, there is nary a one left. I
>think the last time I ate an August apple was in P.E.I. about 17 years ago,
>when we happened upon a tree in someone's front yard while out driving
>around. We rang the doorbell and asked if we could buy a few. Needless to
>say, we went home with a bag full and the guy's good wishes.
>

One of the varieties of Russet perhaps? Possibly the Fall Russet, also
know as the Autumn Russet.
They seem to have all but been lost and they were one of my favourites
too, way back when.

Ross