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["George Brinson" <george.brinson@nf.sympatico.ca>]

Hi Ales...........what you say is very true...........we may have strict 
regulations on one sector of agriculture, but the "powers that be" know very 
little, or have not realized  the millions of pounds of the same materials 
for direct consumption being distributed over the whole continent. Makes one 
smile>!!

George Brinson


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "aleš heuler" <wama@seznam.cz>
To: "nafex" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:15 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] discussion about seeds


> Dear friends, don’t worry about the seeds. They are still sleeping in 
> freedom in the cellar over the ocean in Europe. It was just an idea for 
> future. But if it is illegal we stay rather in theoretical level.
> If we are asking who is carrying diseases to ours lands we should have a 
> look to the big corporation importing fruits in to the supermarkets. You 
> can find nice Hungarian and Romanian plums in North American markets. 
> (south Europa is considered to be an origin of Plum pox).    One is realy 
> surprised (after hearing hysteric messages about spreading new illnesses 
> from abroad) to find nice Californian peaches in Germany ornamented with 
> fresh peach leaves on the top of it!!!
> By the way: Plum pox in Europe known as Sarka can not be carried by the 
> seeds.
> It is true that this disease destroyed about 80% of the nicest population 
> Prunus Domestica. But instead of crying and be narky we should ask our 
> self why it has happened? In last few centuries P.d. was almost entirely 
> propagated by suckers. There is a big population of clone trees without 
> any generative reproduction, which is the only possibility to change 
> genetic properties with regard to growing conditions. So we don’t supposed 
> to be wondering that once upon a time some weak beings are attack by 
> diseases what is only the natural reaction of universe to get rid of the 
> unable creatures.
> That’s why we decided years ago to start to propagate fruit trees from 
> seeds. We do use grafting and cuttings propagation of course. But more as 
> middle step to have a wide scale of varieties for beginning with selecting 
> seeds.
> Ales
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