On 2021-04-06 2:39 a.m., US Janet wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 16:43:35 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:

>>
>> One of the heritage apples is the snow apple. They are few and far
>> between. We had an apple orchard beside us when we first moved here.
>> The front part was owned by a farmer from down the road and the back
>> part was owned by the Jockey Club. The farmer tended and harvested the
>> trees on the Jockey Club property. In the far corner was one snow apple
>> tree. He never bothered harvesting that one. I sure helped myself to
>> lots of them. They are always better harvested late.
>
> You mean snow apples are no longer found in the mid-west. That was
> the top apple of my childhood. So sweet and juicy and really white
> flesh.

I don't know about the mid-west. I am in southern Ontario. I can't
remember the last time I saw snow apples in a store, but it was years
before I discovered the one in the orchard next door, and the farmer did
not bother picking it.

It was not just the white flesh of the fruit. There was often a patch of
pink in it.