I live about twelve miles from the Geneva experimental station and about sixteen miles from Cornell university-- basically I am smack in the middle between Hobart and Cornell :) And you've just given me an excellent idea for a post-- I was already intending to do one about apples since every year my husband and I drive out to Hector- a small town near Watkins Glen- and hike through the national forest where there are about a dozen abandoned apple orchards. And though they are no longer tended to, the apples are still plentiful, mainly because a beekeeper friend of ours keeps bees around the area that pollinate these trees.

There is everything from red and golden delicious, to cortland and macintosh growing wild, possibly even fuji now that I'm reading your list which will be a great reference for me- and needless to say my house and my parent's house smells like a cinnamon apple factory during this time of year, with pies, apple crisp, cobblers, and applesauce constantly being made.

But right now we are in a heatwave, this whole past week has been in the eighties and apparently it's going into next week. Which seems to be slowing everything down. My husband has been out mushroom hunting with his uncle and he's been keeping an eye on the apples but they're not ready yet. Grapes are ripening though :)