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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Lee:
When you have more time, I'd love to hear how you came to do all this,  what your background is, and your breeding goals overall.  Sounds like it would fit the fruit exploring book very well.
If you had any interest in grapes, I also own a discussion list for grape breeders.
-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 Mar 24, 2005, at 5:08 AM, <pippmsxx@irtc.net> wrote:

Response to my offer of new varietys has been overwhelming, I am too busy
right now with pruning 2000 fruit trees to answer everyone individually,
If you send a stamped (about 3 stamps) addressed envelope to me at---Lee
Elliott, 1852 woodson-winchester rd. Winchester, Illinois, 62694 I will
send you a scion of each, (while they last, quanity of scion wood is
limited), 1-11 is a Galax honey crisp cross, is small, russeted, resembles
gala in shape, color but is sweeter, crisper, 3-19 is pink lady x
honeycrisp, late in the season,much like pink lady but is keeping better,
not as pretty with some russet, still very crisp in March, tart,not sweet.
6-37 is Goldrush x honeycrisp, round, yellow ground color blushed red,
Very crisp breaking flesh,sweet-tart, keeps well, still crisp in march,
normal size, tendency to crack around the stem. I have several more that
I'm going to hang on to and test some more, I had about 100 new varietys
fruit in 2004, expect a lot more this year. I;m going to give the ones
that I think don't have commercial qualitys but have good eating qualitys
to my Nafex friends and save the best of the best to possibly patent and
sell, I have one of these so far, 2-17 is a Pinova x honey crisp cross
that is the equal of HC, maybe better that seems to be able to grow much
further south than HC will. This first flush of fruiting apples comes from
the most vigorous seedlings  of the 3000 crosses I've done,I have both the
seedling trees and each has a limb graft too, It is the limb grafts that
fruited last year, hardly any of the seedlings themselves fruited, (5
fruited ) this year is the 6th leaf for the seedlings and the limb grafts
are only 2 leaves old, I have about 500 limb grafts to make this year, a
number are open-polinated seedlings of Pacific Rose, this apple, in my
opinion is the best desert apple in the world. Trouble is it's owned by
Enza, (New Zealand) and can't be obtained here. Will post more later,
please don't write me right now, am too busy to coorespond until I get my
work done,Lee Elliott

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