2005/03/19

Apple variety

Adams Pearmain , Akane, Akero, Almata, Arkansas Black, Ashmead's Kernel
Baldwin, Beacon / Fenton, Belle do Boskoop, Belmont, Ben Davis, Benoni
Black Gilliflower / Sheepnose, Blacktwig / Paragon, Blaze, Blenheim Orange,
Blue Pearmain, Braburn, Bramley's Seedling, Burgundy,
Calville Blanc d'hiver, Canada Red, Carpentin, Champlain, Chenango/ Strawberry, Cherry Cox, Cherry Pippin, Cindy Red, Claygate Pearmain, Cole's Quince, Colvis Spice,
Coppertone, Cornish Gilliflower, Cortland, Redcort, Court Pendu Plat, Cox's Orange Pippin, Criterian Dabinett (Cider)
Davey, Delicious (original), Double Red Delicious, Earlichief Delicious, Imperial Red Delicious, Redchief Delicious, Stark Spur Delicious, Starking Delicious, Starkrimson Red Delicious, Devonshire Quarrendon, Doctor, Dologo (Crab), Dr. Matthews, Duchess (of Oldenburg),
Earliblaze, Early Harvest, Early Joe, Early Red, Early Strawberry, Edward VII,
Ellison's Orange, Elstar / Lustar, Emperor Alexander, Empire, English Bearty, Earwin Baur,
Esopus Spitzenberg,
Fallawater / Tulpehocken, Fireside Fortune, Foxwhelp (cider), Franklin, Freyberg, Fuji,
Yataka Fuji, Fukunishiki
Gala, Imperial Gala, Royal Gala, Starks Gala, Geneva Early, Gideon, Gilpin, Golden Supreme, Smoothie Golden Delicious, Dundale Golden Delicious, Golden Noble, Golden Nuggett, Golden Pippin, Golden Sweet, Goldrush, Granny Smith, Red Gravenstein, Gray Stark, Grimes Golden,
Haralson, Hawaii, Hidden Rose, Hightop Sweet, Holiday, Holstein, Honeycrisp, Hoople's Antique Gold, Hubbardston Nonesuch, Hudson's Golden Gem, Hyde King, Hyslop Crab,
Idared, Ingrid Marie, Irish Peach / Early Croften
James Grieve , Jacob's Strawberry / Lady Sudeley, Jefferies, Jerseymac, Jonagold, Jonalicious, Jonamac, Anderson Jonathan, Double Red Jonathan, Jonafree
Jonathan, Jonnee Red, Jonathan, NuRed Johnathan, Jubilee
Kandil Sinap, Kent, Kerry Pippin, Keswick Codlin, Kidd's Orange Red, King David,
Tompkin's County King, Kingston Black (cider),
Lady Apple / Api Lady Sweet, Lamb Abbey Pearmain, Liberty, Limbertwig Lodi,
Lord's Seedling, Lubsk Queen,
Macoun, Magiemer (Old Danish), Mahogany, Maindenblush, Margil, Macintosh, Macspur
Macintosh, Redmac Macintosh, McLellan, Medaille d'Or (cider), Melon, Melrose Minnesota 714, Mio, Mollies Delicious, Mother Muster,Mutsu / Crispin
Newell's Large Winer, Newell's Orange, Newtown Pippin, Yellow Newtown, Northern Spy, Northwest Greening Ohio Nonpareil, Old Nonpareil Opalescent
Orenco Apple, Orleans Reinette, Ornamental (crab), Ortley, Ozark Gold
Palmer Green, Paulared, Peck's Pleasant, Pewaukee Pink Pearl, Pink Pearmain, Pitmaston Pineapple, Pomme Royale, Porter, Priestly Prima, Primate, Priscilla,
Pristine Pumpkin Sweet / Poundsweet, Puritan
Quinte
Red Astrachan / Astrakan, Red June, Redfree, Reine de Reinette, Rhode Island Greening, Ribston Pippin, Rome, Lawspur Rome, Red Rome, Spuree Rome, Ross Nonpareil, Tussett, King Russet, Davenport Russet, Egremont Russet, English Golden Russet, Fall Russet, Golden Russet, Hunt Russet, Knobbed Russet, Roxbury Russet, Sweet Russet,
Wheeler's Golden Russett
Salome, Sam Young / Irish Russet, Scarlet Crofton, Schweitzer Orange / Swiss Orange, Sekai Ichi, Senator, Signe Tillisch, Sinta, Smokehouse, Snow Apple / Fameuse Snowdrift (crab), Somerset of Maine, Sops of Wine, Spartan, Spencer, Spigold, St Edmunds Pippin, Starr, Stearns, Strawberry, Early Strawberry, Late Summer Delicious, Summer Pearmain, Summer Rambo, Summer Rose, Summer Yellow, Summerred, Suprise Sutton's Bearty, Swaar, Swayzie, Sweet Bough, Sweet Gourmet / Arlet
Tioga Tohoku, Tolman Sweet Transparent, Yellow Tremlett's, Bitter (cider) Turley Winesap, Twenty Ounce, Tydeman's Late Orange, Tydeman's Red Viking
Virginia Gold, Vista Bella, Von Zuccalmaglio's Reinette
Wagener, Waltana, Wealthy, Wellington Bloomiess, Westfield Seek-No-Further
White Winter Pearmain, Wickson, William's Red, Willie Sharp, Winesap, Red Winesap, Staybrite Winesap, Stayman Winter Banana (spur), Wismer's Dessert, Wolf River
Yellow Bellflower, York Imperial, Yataka
Zabergau Reinette

2005/03/18

Fo'c'sle

Fo'c'sle is a nautical shortening for the term "forecastle", pronounced /"f@Uks@l/. Originally meant the upper deck of a sailing ship, forward of the foremast. The forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters is also called forecastle. Related to the latter meaning is the phrase "before the mast" which denotes anything related to ordinary sailors (as opposed to a ship's officers).

The term "forecastle" relates to Medieval shipbuilding, where ships of war were usually equipped with a tall, multi-deck castle-like structure in the bows of the ship which served as a platform for archers to fire down on enemy ships and could also be used as a defensive stronghold if the ship was boarded. A similar but usually much larger structure was at the aft end of the ship, often stretching all the way from the mainmast to the stern. Having such tall upperworks on the ship was of course detrimental to sailing performance. As cannon were introduced and gunfire replaced boarding as the primary means of naval combat during the 16th century, the medieval forecastle was no longer needed, and later ships such as the galleon had only a low, one-deck high forecastle. Some sailing ships had no forecastle as such at all but the name was still being used to indicate the foremost part of the upper deck.