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  • From: "Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Listing from old BCN catalog
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:44:03 -0500

Title: listing from old catalog

Idell,

I still had ’98, ’99, and 2000 editions of the Bear Creek Nursery catalogs in my file cabinet.

 

The only non-grafted/budded plum I’ve seen in any of those catalogs is beach plum, P.maritima. Did not see ‘Sierra’ plum anywhere in there.

I had a couple of seedling beach plums here, from Ken Asmus at OIKOS; in the ground for over a decade, neither ever threw out any suckers – until the last one died back a year or two ago, but I’m seeing some suckers popping up 10 ft or so away from the original plant now.

 

They don’t state the species for the Timm & Success seedlings(I have a couple of those growing here), and I’d always thought they were A.alnifolia – but the NCGR database lists Success as a hybrid of A.stoloniferaXalnifolia, and if you read Dirr’s treatment of the genus Amelanchier, it seems that the taxonomists do a lot of ‘lumping’ or ‘splitting’, when it comes to classifying specimens, depending upon which camp (lumpers or splitters) they belong to.

 

Lucky Pittman

Hopkinsville KY

 

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell Weydemeyer
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:33 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] listing from old catalog

 

Hello to NAFEX folks,

This is a bit of an odd request--

I am looking for a Bear Creek Catalog listing from before 2000. I need the description of a "native" plum , probably the Sierra Plum (to see if it is the one that sprouts from the base) and for Timm and Success serviceberries (possibly Amelanchier stolonifera).

My garden will be on a garden tour soon and I need to make sure these are the correct plants and scientific names.

Idell Weydemeyer 

 

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