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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] fruit trees
  • Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:13:59 -0500 (CDT)

>Depends on how many. For 20 or more, you should look at one of the
>Tennessee nurseries. Most all commercial growers east of the Rockies
>buy out of Tennessee.

I work with orchardists around the Great Lakes. They buy from a number of
nurseries but none of them are from Tennessee. There are a lot of good fruit
tree nurseries and most buyers in this area work with northern nurseries
because they believe they gat hardier trees. Most of them have already been
mentioned.

Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610




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