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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

St. Lawrence Nurseries has an excellent on-line catalog at
http://www.sln.potsdam.ny.us/ which has much of the parentages, etc.,
for these plants.  Other sources list a higher mature height for St.
Cloud - perhaps it depends on climate. 
http://www.vaccinium.com/home.html also has lots of cultivar
descriptions on-line, with more of a focus on the commercial grower, as
they only sell wholesale.  Of the three you are interested in, they only
list Chippewa.

Ginda

Claude Jolicoeur wrote:
> 
> Doreen and Ginda,
> Thanks a lot for your comments on blueberry.
> If others have information on these blueberries (hybrid highbish/lowbush:
> Chippewa, Friendship and St-Cloud), wether their origin, parentage or other
> things, I would appreciate.
> 
> Claude
> 
> A 19:20 01.01.31 -0600, vous avez écrit :
> >Claude,
> >I grew Chippewa in Springfield, IL, which is USDA zone 5b.  It did well and
> >had fruit on it the second spring.  The only problem I had with it was
> >rabbits!  Finally had to cage it with chicken wire to get it going.
> >Chippewa was a nice size bush, and I planted it next to Northblue for
> >pollination.
> >Doreen Howard
> >Now Zone 4b
> >
> >I have a couple of St. Cloud.  They seem healthy, and the berries taste
> >very good.  They are sweet and have a good blueberry flavor.  They are
> >not huge berries, not much larger than the large end of wild
> >blueberries.  (I was looking for small berries, the better to cook into
> >pancakes.)  Mine are young, and the bunnies got most of the fruiting
> >buds last year, so I don't know how productive they are.  There are lots
> >of buds (behind mesh) this winter.  The bushes have attractive fall
> >foliage, and the flowers are mildly ornamental, too.
> >
> >Ginda Fisher
> 

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