Before As Well As After

Above, 2 moments inwards the life of Duchess of Oldenburg, an antique Russian diverseness amongst cooking together with keeping qualities.

It's a late-summer apple.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 friend took this together with other blossom photos inwards Harvard, Massachusetts, yesterday.

I'll last posting to a greater extent than throughout the week, though past times week's halt I hold back the blooms to last much fuller than inwards the photos.

I select Duchess to kickoff because I bring tried it (and thence took a photo), but that's non truthful of all of them. No "after" for some.

The same every bit above, uncropped

The blossoms that I posted on Friday are on an undistinguished volunteer crab apple tree that has popped upwards inwards a kind of hedge betwixt my menage together with a neighbors.

Identification

The appearance of an apple's blossom is sometimes described inwards apple tree manuals, but for the close purpose blossoms are non an aid to identification if the tree's provenance is unknown.

Authorities such every bit Beach's Apples of New York clitoris the appearance of buds (acute, appressed, etc.) for varieties listed, but non blossoms.

The ingenious apple identification database maintained past times Seattle Tree Fruit Society together with others, does non include blossom (or bud) coloring or shape.

Besides that, the dates on which trees blossom are clues to apple tree identity.

However, since trees flower at dissimilar times inwards dissimilar house together with years, this information is necessarily relative.

Rather than an absolute engagement on the calendar, you lot may read things similar "a calendar week earlier McIntosh" or "early," etc.

To me, the budding blossoms are simply a especially lovely hope of the harvest to come.

Note: "appressed" is a word, non a typo.

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