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  • From: jhecksel@voyager.net
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] a whitney sport
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:31:31 -0400

Another angle:

The breeders in the prairie states were playing with native crab species
(Mercer?) and with M. baccata and M.Xrobusta (Cherry crab, Sylvia).
Perhaps "European" originally refereed to ancestry/bloodlines instead of
actural origin of seedling.

> I would speculate that it is the Illinois Whitney that has been introduced
> in Europe.
>


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-Joe Hecksel
Eaton Rapids, Michigan



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