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  • From: Mike Levine <mlevine@umich.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Raspberry seed offer and bananas
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 19:21:44 -0400

Not wanting to stir the brew up too much, but I'll put my two cents in.

I once contacted Dr. Parmar about obtaining a hardy banana and he wrote
"I shall send the plant material free of cost but you will have to pay for
the forwarding which will be about 100 US dollars.

But before that you will have to obtain an import peremit from the USDA as
any material sent without proper permit from here shall be destroyed by the
quarantine. So please try to get the USDA Yellow & Green Label."

Is that a small price (coming all the way from India?) or is that
exhorbitant? I guess it depends how bad you want it.
To me it sounded like a little too much money and hassle so I dropped the
matter until now.

Dr. Parmar did mention that he had sent a hardy banana to a NAFEX member in
the past and never heard any feedback from him. Anyone out there get a
banana from him? I'd be interested to try hear any feedback on it and maybe
try to convince you to send me one since it's already here in N. America.


Still wondering if there are blue raspberries out there somewhere...


Thanks,
Mike Levine
Ann Arbor, MI zone 5b


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Raspberry seed offer


> Recently there was a thread from someone looking for raspberries. In
the
> course of the discussion, Dr. Parmar from India offered material (seed, I
> believe) of a raspberry species from India. Someone else objected to the
> offer as a sort of commercialization.
> Since there are people on this list who are not members of NAFEX, it's
> worth pointing out that NAFEX has had a long tradition of an Exchange Page
> in it's journal, POMONA, in which members can make plant material
available
> for trade or for a small price, usually just about enough to pay for the
> postage and the member's time in sending it.
> In this case, it seemed that what Dr. Parmar was doing was in the same
> spirit as the Exchange Page, since he was hardly posting a huge ad or
> demanding an exhorbitant fee, and what he was offering was relevant to the
> thread to which it was connected.
> There are many members of NAFEX who have nurseries or large collections
> of certain species and I fail to see that there is any harm in them being
> allowed to make a modest mention of it. Certainly it's unobtrusive enough
> to note it in the signature. Most members have enough common sense to
know
> not to abuse the privalege, and we have a moderator for those rare
> individuals that do.
> -Lon Rombough
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