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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] apple tree nurseries. Part II
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:20:49 -0800

I'll just say that the "lumpy demand" is one reason I went to selling grape
CUTTINGS instead of vines years ago. I got fed up with having to "eat" so
many vines after spending the summer weeding rows. Ironically, I now sell
out of many of the things I used to have to toss.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, consulting, more, at
http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom See new additions to the site, Feb. 2001,
plus word on my grape book.

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>From: jhecksel@voyager.net
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] apple tree nurseries. Part II
>Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2001, 8:05 PM
>

>
>Hi all:
>
>Regarding the nurseryman's problem of lumpy demand: I think it behooves
>us (customers) to list second and third choices if we want to keep
>specialty, high service nurseries in business.
>
>I often find myself making tough choices. My wants consistently exceed
>my budget. So I flip a coin and order Nova Spy apple trees instead of
>Enterprise, for example. It is to our mutual advantage to have the
>nursery owner know that. He/she might run out of Nova Spy. Knowing my
>second choice allows him/her to still make a sale and I can still get
>trees I want.
>
>Do any of the nurserymen out there care to comment: Just how lumpy is
>demand for specialty cultivars like Florina or Roxbury Russet? How much
>does demand vary over a five year window?
>--
>
> -Joe Hecksel
> Eaton Rapids, Michigan
>
>
>Personal webpage open to the public at
>http://my.voyager.net/jhecksel
>Criticism welcomed.

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  • Re: [nafex] apple tree nurseries. Part II, Lon J. Rombough, 02/23/2001

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