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Apple purists tend to dismiss supermarket varieties like Gala as bland and boring, often with good reason.
However it has to be said that if you want a reliable sweet easy-eating apple, Gala is actually hard to beat.
It is also important to compare "apples to apples" - a locally-picked specialist variety in a farmers market is inevitably going to taste better than a supermarket Gala which has traveled from another country.
However, anyone fortunate enough to have tried a Gala straight from the tree will know that it has a surprisingly punchy sweet flavor, not found in supermarket specimens.
In freshly-picked examples the sweetness typical of Gala has a pear-like quality.
However it has to be said that if you want a reliable sweet easy-eating apple, Gala is actually hard to beat.
It is also important to compare "apples to apples" - a locally-picked specialist variety in a farmers market is inevitably going to taste better than a supermarket Gala which has traveled from another country.
However, anyone fortunate enough to have tried a Gala straight from the tree will know that it has a surprisingly punchy sweet flavor, not found in supermarket specimens.
In freshly-picked examples the sweetness typical of Gala has a pear-like quality.
Glen Hill Orchard
The Bogardus Family established what is now Glen Hill Orchard as, appropriately enough, Bogardus Orchard, on the hills comprising the Kokosing Gap southeast of Mount Vernon in 1912. The orchard was instrumental in Ohio apple variety breeding and promotion of "hand-fruit" apples in the state as well. Today Glen Hill has 22 varieties of apples, and grows peaches, Asian pears, sweet and tart cherries as well.
An Advertisement from Newark Advocate Oct 1971

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