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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 05:19 PM 3/9/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> I bought Bramley scionwood from someone - I think it was the Christian 
> Homesteading Movement (no internet/no e-mail.  But they/he regularly 
> advertise in Pomona).  Unfortunately, the tree died.  I had grafted about 
> a dozen varieties on it, and it might have suffered from a virus.   I know 
> it also suffered from a drought.
I, too, grafted Bramley's Seedling, from scions I got from CHF - probably 
5+ years ago, and I think mine is still alive, though it's barely 2 ft tall 
- on a combo M9/M111 rootstock.  Granted, it's received no care whatsoever, 
other than mowing a couple times a year, and it is growing in a thick sod 
of KY-31 fescue.  I keep waiting for it to die so I can plant a pear there, 
but I may just go ahead and bite the bullet and rip it out, anyway.

Lucky