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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> I've got about 10 peaches set on 2 trees. It was too cold and rainy
> when they bloomed..... maybe next year. Peaches and apples still have
> not bloomed where you are?

I'm in Northern Pennsylvania, right near the NY border. The pears are just 
starting to blossom; I hope they hold off a couple of days because it's grey 
and windy today, and probably tomorrow. I can just see the color on the 
apple flower buds. The Reliance peach hasn't bloomed yet. The new peach is 
just coming out of dormancy. The old peach used to be the first thing to 
bloom; the last couple of years the pears have bloomed first, then the 
apples, then the peach last. Climate change? Or maybe the trees are maturing 
and change their bloom time?

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA