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["Bruce Hansen" <brucedhansen@sbcglobal.net>]

Bob was a giant. He was what NAFEX was all about and what many members of NAFEX are today. His nursery guy, unfortunately, sullied Bob's reputation. His original orchard was in Birmingham Michigan. He traveled all over the country and overseas seeking old cultivars; grapes, plums, apples, peaches,currents, pears......... Too bad that piece of crap over by Benton Harbor still pedals trees using his name, Southmeadow.

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Lon Rombough
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:50 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Southmeadow

Ironically, Bob Nitzchke, the founder of Southmeadow, is (was? He would be very old if he is still alive) a founding member of NAFEX, but the nursery that took it over has gotten many bad reviews. I had a bad experience with it, and just about everyone I know who dealt with them told me similar stories.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Dec 14, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Mark_Bugaieski@rlicorp.com wrote:





Amazing that you posted this, Regina (great website, by the way). I had
one very negative dealing with them years ago, but don't recall details, so
was reluctant to post a negative comment. This is probably the only
nursery I've come across that I wouldn't continue to do business with.

Mark



Message: 1
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:09:19 -0500
From: "Regina Kreger" <regina@kreger.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Celestia (old apple variety found).
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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I came across that as well, and thought it sounded great. Unfortunately
...... well, look up Southmeadow on http://www.gardenwatchdog.com.

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From: "Rodney Eveland" <reveland@collinscom.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Celestia (old apple variety found).

http://www.southmeadowfruitgardens.com/FeaturedFruitTrees.html
A michigan source. See fruit tree catalog

I came across this site while searching for Foxwhelp. Searching on
Foxwhelp finds lots of rare and cider apples.

On rare occasions one of the great old American apples mentioned in
the early literature is rediscovered. Such is the case with CELESTIA.
CELESTIA was first mentioned by John Warder in his classic work
"American Pomology - Apples 1887" containing 1500 names of apples. He
called CELESTIA a fruit with very profusely, aromatic and spicy

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