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[LEE REICH <lreich@hvc.rr.com>]

I didn't get the beginning of this thread, but I do have a whole chapter on 
Nanking cherries in my new book
UNCOMMON FRUITS FOR EVERY GARDEN. You need two bushes, for cross-pollination, 
to get fruit and I don't believe
that plum will pollinate nanking cherries. I have grown them successfully in 
Wisconsin, Maryland, Delaware, and
New York, and think they would be worth a try anywhere. The plants are very 
inexpensive and beaar very quickly,
often they're second year. I do occasionally get some dieback, but the bushes 
keep chugging along bearing more
than I, the birds, and squirrels can eat.

Lee Reich
www.leereich.com

Mark Lee wrote:

> Joan,
> It must be Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa).  This is the first time I
> have seen it.  I found a number of pictures that look just like the
> plants I found.  Here is an example from an arboretum in Idaho.
> http://www.uidaho.edu/arboretum/july.html
> Thanks for your help with the ID!
>
> >From what I remember, Nanking Cherry probably won't work for me in
> Seattle because it is too warm and wet in the winter.  Does anyone have
> advice on this (like Lon)?
> Mark Lee, Seattle
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> JoanRRosenberg@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] need help with cherry ID
>
> Sounds like nanking cherries to me.  My bushes fruited this year for the
> first time, and they were small versions of montmorency type cherries.
> They pollinate with plums, not cherries.
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