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Re: [nafex] cider apples



Hi,

Woodwinds Nursery in Bluevale, Ontario has cider apple trees in their
catalog.

Regards,
Tom

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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 tugger@netreach.net wrote:

> I'm interested in producing good hard cider and know that it is 
> essential to use cider apples.  I'm from the east and am aware of one 
> orchard  of about 15 acres dedicated to these varieties located in new 
> England but am unaware of any other orchards elswhere.  Does anyone 
> have a guess as to how many acres of cider trees exist out of the 
> 461,000 acres Dept of Agric. says are in existence today in the US? 
> Personally I've got about 50 of these in my 1 year old orchard so 
> maybe I'm the second largest grower in the US BUT I doubt it.
> I'm also looking for referrences re varieties of American cider trees 
> that were used when hard cider was the drink of choice many years
> ago. 
>  Any help would be appreciated.
> Mike
> 
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