From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Bob F wrote:   
   ...   
   > The "winter banana" is a very late apple, and stores well, thus the name.   
      
     i haven't looked it up on flowering time but i did   
   notice the Transparent Yellows were noted as flowering   
   early and that they needed some thinning to get a decent   
   crop.   
      
     around here flowering early would be a damage from frost   
   risk i'd like to avoid.   
      
     this is an apple growing region but the number of apple   
   orchards isn't that big any more.  it takes a lot of manual   
   labor to properly  take care of an apple orchard.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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