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In a message dated 9/3/2008 1:12:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sherwindu@comcast.net writes:

> Last year, after doing a frustrating search for a Belle of Georgia Peach 
> Tree, I spotted a nice looking grafted one at my local Home Depot.  I normally 
> don't buy from the builder's store, but the price was right and the tree 
> looked healthy.
 

This reminds me:

Several years back while traveling through Georgia, I purchased a few Belle of Georgia peaches at a farm stand. Delicious!!!  Stratified three seeds, dug a nice large hole, replaced with rich top soil then planted the seed early spring. Two germinated and grew about 4 feet that first year. The second year to maybe 7 feet. The third year they bore fruit, large, looked like Belle and was every bit as good as Belle the seed parent. Being in zone 5 and Belle being a southern peach, both froze to death that following winter!    Bummer!

Jerry



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