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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

Are Hansen's bush cherry the same species as nanking?.  My Hansen's look 
different than the
nankings, but perhaps I have them mislabelled?

mIEKAL

Don Yellman wrote:

> Miekal:
>
> Dr. Hansen (can't remember his first name) worked with bush cherries for
> many years, I believe at S. Dakota State University.  One of the results
> was Hansen's bush cherry, which I have grown and it fruited quite
> prolifically here.  Don't know if any other commercially marketed
> cultivars came from his work.  I eventually took them out after I
> planted regular cherry trees, because the fruits are smaller than tree
> varieties, and the fruit/pit ratio was such that they did not work well
> in our plunger type pitter.  But they were vigorous growers, and since
> they were developed for the Northern prairies they might work where you
> are located.  As I recall, flavor was not bad.
>
> Rgds, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA