North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

Originally, some folks propagated Reliance from seed. These various trees 
have been 
propagated by budding and sold as Reliance. It has been said. Beware. Meader 
made a 
good peach, but the on-going theory that peaches are true to type has created 
confusion.
Those with good-tasting Reliance should send budwood to those who do not have 
good 
tasting Reliance. The dieing in cold weather is due to unhardy rootstock, as 
a 
hardy peach on unhardy rootstock in pointless. Own-root your Reliance!
Heron Breen
zone 4, Maine 

On Wed Nov 23  6:47 , 'tanis cuff' <tanistanis@hotmail.com> sent:

>20+ years ago a neighbor planted a peach tree which I assume was a 
>Reliance-- the only thing being sold in area (s.WI) then.  It actually 
>produced a crop before it winter-killed.  Fantastic flavor!  Average 
>silt-loam soil, don't know if & what they might have fertilized with.
>
>Have you considered the idea that not all nursery stock is correctly 
>labelled?  Maybe your poor flavored Reliance is mislabelled.
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: charles paradise 
>To: North American Fruit Explorers 
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cold Peaches ?
>Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:18:19 -0500
>
>Reliance - almost no flavor - some
>say with enough minerals taste becomes good...
>
>Here in Indiana my Reliance was had
>wonderful flavor...
>
>Jerry, what's the mineral profile in the soil in Indiana?...
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>nafex mailing list 
>nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>
>All other messages are discarded.
>No exceptions.  
>----
>To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to the bottom of this page (also can be used 
>to 
change other email options):
>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
>
>File attachments are NOT stripped by this list
>TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES!
>Please do not send binary files.
>Use plain text ONLY in emails!
>
>Message archives are here:
>https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
>
>NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/