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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn, just how rural are you?  I have a hard time imagining modern rural 
Pennsylvania.  Are you as rural as a rural Southern abode, just with more 
snow and attitude, or are you more in a small town with neighbors within 
eyesight in either direction?

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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cherry question
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 5:40 PM
> Thanks, Drew. I checked Millers, and they have a Lapin
> cherry and a Star 
> Stella. They both claim to be very hardy, and Canandaigua
> NY (where Millers 
> is located) is at least as cold as here.  I'm looking
> at the Lapin....large 
> fruit and self pollinating.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cherry question
> 
> 
> > The Hansen are a little bigger and more versatile. As
> far as sweet 
> > cherries
> > in your area though, have you tried Miller Nurseries
> in NY? They are 
> > online,
> > sell for all zones and have a variety, also, search
> for orchards and
> > nurseries in Michigan. They were the largest cherry
> producing state, still 
> > are I
> > think and do have sweet cherries there.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 12/14/2008 6:35:32 P.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> >>I don't like cherries and don't know
> anything about growing  them, but; in
> >>cold weather areas like yours, apples should grow 
> well.  I have seen old
> >>heirloom type apple trees with apples  about the
> same size as cherries and
> >>real thorny  (I mean  dangerously thorny) limbs.
> They trees are not large
> >>like a regular  apple or peach tree. They were
> called 'hog apples' , but i
> >>don't know  their real name; but they were
> tasty....
> >>
> > I have apple trees (some  heirloom), peach and pear
> trees. I want to add a
> > couple cherry trees; I  prefer sweet cherries, but I
> think I'm a little 
> > too
> > far north. I've hear  of some pie cherries coming
> out of Canada that are 
> > as
> > sweet as sweet  cherries, but I can't track down a
> source.
> >
> > The tree you describe sounds  like a Hawthorn tree;
> it's related to 
> > apples. I
> > have a couple on my  property, but they are old and
> not producing well. 
> > The
> > fruit are called  "haws".
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
> >
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