Please sign the logs with you initials or better yet group initials to help make the logs last longer. If you could bring along extra log sheets and replace them if necessary it would be a great help. Most of the containers are tied to tree’s with a rope to help keep them in place, please do not untie the caches from there intended place. Very few caches are on the ground but a few are. If you think the cache container is missing please send me an e-mail, I will watch it and if there are a few DNF’s I will replace it. You will want to wear water proof boots as the caches may at time be in a wet area. Tweezers or a leathermen tool with needle nose pliers will be helpful for extracting log sheets. After you find the cache please place the cache so it can’t be seen from the trail.
M.O.T. – Macomb Orchard Trail
Welcome to the Macomb Orchard Trail. These caches have been put out to show off the Macomb Orchard Trail. Many people might not know this trail even exists. I have named all the caches for different Apple varieties some of which are grown in the area. The trail runs from approximately 24 mile and Dequindre rd. to Richmond MI.
A versatile English apple, with a strong pineapple-like flavour, useful for both cooking and eating.
Origins
- Species: Malus domestica
- Parentage: Cox's Orange Pippin x King of the Pippins
- Originates from: Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
- Introduced: 1884
- Developed by: Thomas Laxton
- Cultivar ID: 100200
Identification
- Fruit colour: Red / Orange flush
- Bultitude apple group: 7. Flushed / striped, some russeting, sweet
Using
- Uses: Eat fresh
- Uses: Cooking
- Uses: Juice
- Uses: Hard cider
- Cooking result: Keeps shape
- Flavour quality: Good
- Flavour style: Pineapple
- Harvest period: Late season
- Use / keeping: 3 months or more
- Vitamin C content: Medium
Growing
- Cropping: Good
- Flowering period: Mid season
- Flowering group: 3
- Fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Ploidy: Diploid
- Vigour: Average growth
- Bearing regularity: Biennial tendency
- Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
- General disease resistance: Average
Climate
- Climate suitability: Temperate climates
- Blossom frost-resistance: Susceptible
Disease resistance
- Scab - Some resistance
- Brown rot Monilinia fructigena - Some susceptibility
Also known as
- Brown's South Lincoln Beauty
References and further reading about this variety
- Apples of England (1948)
Author: Taylor