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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Scott,

Yes, it was written mostly by a Nafex past president Ram Fishman of
Greenmantle Nursery.  Nafex used to give the book out free to members but
that was several years ago.  I got my used copy through Amazon.  I think it
cost me about $8 incl. shipping.  It is more tailored toward the beginner,
so if you're a seasoned fruitier it probably wouldn't be very helpful.  It
has some very nice pictures of grafting which is originally why I bought the
book.

Mark
Kansas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S & E Hills" <>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed


> There's a NAFEX handbook?
>
> Scott Hills
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark & Helen
> Angermayer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:27 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed
>
> Self-fertile trees reproduce more true to variety than trees that require
> pollinators.  In my Nafex handbook there is a quote from Thomas Jefferson
> indicating "peaches produce a faithful copy of themselves by seed" (or
> something like that, I'm too lazy to go down and look it up exactly).  He
> was probably not dealing with the hybridized versions of today, but still
> I've heard pretty good results with growing self fertile trees from seed.
> Most apricots are self-fertile so my guess is you'd probably get a good
> copy.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Kellogg" <garuda2@comcast.net>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 8:19 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] apricots from seed
>
>
> > My largest apricot, which is either Sungold or Moongold, had a bumper
> > crop last week.  I ate as many as my stomach could tolerate; dried a
> > few hundred, and made a rhubarb-apricot jam. The tree is from Fedco;
> > it was visited by a welcome swarm of bees as it bloomed this spring.
> > Fruit had surface blemishes, but was GOOD!
> >
> > I've been told it is grafted; any reason to save and grow the seeds??
> >
> > Karen
> >
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