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["Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>]

For those who may be looking for a  good nursery to work with, 
http://ssfruit.cas.psu.edu/appendix/appendix1.htm has a list of recommended 
tree fruit nurseries and a good Appendix at 
http://ssfruit.cas.psu.edu/appendix.htm.  In fact, their overall web site at 
http://tfpg.cas.psu.edu/default.htm is quite resourceful.  Cummins is also 
on the list that I know many of you have used for rootstocks.  We use Adams 
County, Stark Bros. and Van Well, although we had a problem with Stark trees 
this spring having insufficient roots on their Bud 9.  They are standing 
behind them and have offered to replace any tree that kicks the bucket (the 
word doesn't refer to our modern bucket at all, but to a sixteenth century 
word that comes from the French buque, meaning a yoke or similar piece of 
wood. It is said that the word was applied in particular to the beam from 
which a pig was hung in order to be slaughtered. Inevitably, the pig would 
struggle during the process, and would kick the buque) within the next 6 
months.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:32 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Miller Nursery is sneaky


> My neighbors were looking for a quick solution to give them a privacy and 
> noise
> screen for their backyard.  They found something called 'Tall Hedge' in 
> Miller's
> catalog and paid about 8 dollars each for them.  I was curious about this
> variety, and when I checked it out, it turned out to be a variety of 
> Buckthorn.
> Miller did mention
> that sales were prohibited to Minnesota, but did not say why, and nowhere 
> in the
> ad
> did they use the description Buckthorn.  Buckthorn is a major pest, 
> crowding out
>
> native tree species.  Various municipalities and forest management people 
> are
> spending big bucks to rid their area of this intrusive plant.  Why is 
> Miller
> selling this
> stuff and keeping it a big secret?  This goes hand in hand with their 
> policy of
> not telling people what rootstocks their fruit trees are planted on.  They
> survive on deception of the public, taking advantage of people who don't 
> know
> better.