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["Luffman, Margie" <luffmanm@AGR.GC.CA>]

Hello. The Canadian Clonal Genebank and the USDA National Clonal Germplasm 
Repository in Corvallis both have Fairfax strawberry. 

Margie
 
Margie Luffman 
Curator/Conservatrice
Canadian Clonal Genebank/Banque canadienne de Clones
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Telephone/Téléphone: 519-738-2251 ext. 474
Facsimile/Télécopieur: 519-738-2929
2585 County Road 20
Harrow, Ontario 
N0R 1G0 
luffmanm@agr.gc.ca
 
 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of dwoodard@becon.org
Sent: November 2, 2006 6:45 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Fairfax strawberry, was Re: Strawberry Mulch

Topgun, some members have been trying to find Fairfax without success.

How long ago did you buy plants of Fairfax, and from whom? Do you know if 
they still have it? Do you still have it?

How do you rate Fairfax for flavour, productivity and ease of growing 
under your conditions, compared to other cultivars you have grown? I
ask because the comments I have seen extolling Fairfax as the best of 
strawberries (in flavour, but not as productive or disease resistant
as many others) were made a few decades ago, and I wonder whether it
still stands out when compared to modern cultivars.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Peninsula


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, O'Barr, R. D. wrote:

> I am trying Gurney's whopper this year. Anyone have any luck with it? I have
> tried and liked Surecrop, Catskill, and Fairfax here and all have done well
> after a season of removing all blooms and runners first.
> I am having a lot of trouble with the twig girdler on my oriental
> persimmons. Is it the same girdler that attacks pecan and hickory, i.e., the
> hickory twig girdler? One branch clipped had 14 persimmons and the other
> branch on the same tree about the same number. They are still cutiing limbs
> on Nov 1 as the branch still had green leaves and I check most every day.
> Topgun
> Zone 7

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