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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

>     I don't know why people just assume that local nurseries have answers to everything.  I have dealt with alot of  them and quickly learned that the owners had no more qualification for their tasks than their love of working 
> with plants


Yeah, I imagine you're right, although this guy was the person who 
supposedly knew about fruit tree problems. In other words, I asked the 
first person I encountered at the nursery, and they called him up to the 
front desk. Oh, well. As I say, I doubt if they get many questions about 
peach trees around here. I'd never even seen one until I planted these. :-)

I've found that the Internet has lots of information, and of course this 
NAFEX list is great, but it's really hard to get information locally,... 
and sometimes that's what I really need. The county extension office 
told me that the university hadn't replaced their fruit specialist, and 
their master gardeners were a bit dumbfounded by some of my questions 
(about pluots and apriums, intense backyard orchard cultivation, etc.). 
Well, maybe when I'm old and gray - er, older and grayer - I'll be the 
local expert, huh? Heh, heh. Not likely!

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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