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["Rodney" <reveland@collinscom.net>]

Probably not as your peaches more than likely come from
British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. I doubt that any of the New Varieties 
down here have passed quarantine to get into Canada yet.

> >  you can pick off the tree
> > and roll them in the box without sorting.

> Is this why a box of gorgeous-looking peaches I bought last year
> looked like they had been used for bowling balls when they ripened
> enough to bottle?  Bruised all over.

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Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil