Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:57:41 +0000, you wrote:

>Yeah, I've ordered probably 50 trees, mostly apples, from them over the last 
>5 years.  Nice sturdy stock, seems to be doing well.  I think Raintree's 
>strong point is the unusual varieties they list, many of them hard to find 
>elsewhere.  For example, this year's catalog has copper ("purple") beeches.  
>Rare!
>

Longwood Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania (which is
pretty spectacular, in any case) has some of the most
gorgeous copper beeches imaginable.  They are huge and I
think they are quite old.

http://www.longwoodgardens.org - a fast look doesn't show a
picture of them, unfortunately.  

I used to live in Newark, Delaware - near Longwood, and I
visited it a lot (also Winterthur).  They are the only
things I miss about living down there.  (We're in
Pennsylvania now, but far from that area.)

Pat
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