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  • From: mauch1@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Duke Cherries
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:19:10 -0400

>I have them.  The Balaton and the Danube are hungarian sour cherries, not dukes.  Surefire is a sour,
>not a Duke.  Raintree did carry one for a while but nothing has been offered recently.  I don't know that
>any of my crosses are dukes, I think the sours cross with each other and the sweet cross with each
>other.  I don't know how to tell Dukes  as seedlings.   You have to be really specific with the pollen and
>shield the flowers from outside influence. 
 
Could you tell us what you think of each of the 3? 
Balaton
Danube
Surefire
 
Thanks,
 
Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation



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