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[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

Thanks Mark!
Only thing I have noticed is after a long day hike of munching on 
clumps of Wintergreen (Tea Leaves as they are called locally)here and 
there continuosly is an odd dry-mouth like condition that only a glass 
of milk or something else fatty can reverse. 
On a fruit note, I really recommend Early Bartlett pear. Early, 
delicious, and not mealy or mushy, ripening with reasonable slowness 
off the tree for an early variety. They seem a little firm when perfect 
in my book. Biting through the firm skin reveals an excellent tender 
flesh. A little different pressure test for ripeness. Tree lives a long 
time here in zone 4b. Just as good as Bartlett up here in my book, 
considering Bartlett doesn't really live up to its fame/flavor being a 
longer season than tree-ripening allows for. Maybe not enough degree 
days? One situation for me at least where the store bought Bartletts 
are better than the ones off the tree. Could be our soil here though, 
or region. 
Happy Harvests,
Heron 
On Tue Sep 21 15:56 , 'Mark Lee' <markl@nytec.com> sent:

>I hope I didn't mislead anyone about the safety of eating wintergreen
>berries.  I was talking about 98% pure wintergreen extract.  According
>to
>http://66.102.7.104/search\?
q=cache:PqvX9cWkp2cJ:homedistiller.org/flavou
>r.htm+wintergreen+oil+yield&hl=en
>the wintergreen plant yields about 0.6% of this oil.  A teaspoon of oil
>is produced from 167 teaspoons (3.5 cups) of the plant.  Eating that
>much would be hard to do.  Eating a few berries or leaves seems pretty
>safe.
>-Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org','','','')">nafex-
bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lee
>Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:00 PM
>To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'
>Subject: RE: [NAFEX] wintergreen berries
>
>I was looking into the toxicity of wintergreen oil (1 teaspoon of 98%
>pure methyl salicylate, the equivalent of 14 extra strength aspirins,
>can be deadly to toddlers).  Wintergreen is a flavoring in a carbonated
>beverage called Birch Beer.  This is made from the bark of the birch
>called Betula lenta.  Here is a site that talks about this:
>http://www.root-beer.info/birch.html
>
>Three mouse clicks from this page brought me to this page that found me
>laughing to myself:
>http://www.root-beer.info/others/celray.html
>Have you ever heard of celery flavored soda?  You learn something every
>day.
>
>-Mark Lee, Seattle
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org','','','')">nafex-
bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lee
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:34 AM
>To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'
>Subject: [NAFEX] wintergreen berries
>
>I bought a wintergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) at a farmers 
market
>last weekend.  The pinkish-red berries were the largest I have seen,
>almost 3/4" diameter.  They looked like cherries hanging on the small
>bush.  The guy selling them didn't know the berries were edible!  Are
>wintergreen berries this size unusual?
>-Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 8
>
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