> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:52:15 -0700
> From: "Gary R Switzer" <gswitzer_at_loop.com>
> Subject: Scrumpy!
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> I suspect that Apple Lane is a local center for the making of cider
> and scrumpy (so called because it's made from "scrumps" or fallen
> apples. Pear trees tend to grow in soil that is marginal for apples
> and, in Old England, were often planted as boundry markers. Many
> an Orlanthi stead likely has old pear trees planted at the corners.
IIRC, in the RW, apple growing was a late invention of civilization
(? Roman). Because it depends on grafting (?), which is not an
immediately obvious way of growing a tree (?).
So how is in Glorantha? Do eating-apple trees grow from
eating-apples? Or are they grafted?