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["Moyer, Richard" <ramoyer@king.edu>]

We second red currants over white, also pomegranate.  Clove currants (R.
aureum, R. odoratum)are exquisitely scented during bloom.
Wineberries excel visually among the brambles (Rubus), catalogs use these as
background pictures.  Wineberries are pleasantly flavored, though this fruit
leaves your fingers sticky.

As for poetry, Ames nursery used this in their catalog: 'comfort me with
apples, for I am weary of love'
Also included in "Song of Solomon":
'beside our doors are all choice fruits, which I have laid up for you, O my
beloved'
'let me beloved come to his garden and eat its choicest fruits'
 
Pomegranates, apples, figs, raisins mentioned specifically here, along with
fair animals, herbs and precious jewels.

Time for bed!
Richard Moyer
East Tenn, Zone 6

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 20:20:12 +0000
From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Beautiful Fruits
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This is almost a poem.  Any poet out there who could compose some verse
to 
be handed out at point-of-sale of the BeautifulFruits ?

tc