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["Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>]

This is so common it is not funny. I waited 8 years for my magness to bear and it is probably a seckle. I also have a late plum ordered from a supposedly reliable nursery that was to be green gage and is not. I have an apple that was ordered for a crab apple and is a large green apple, not tart enough for granny smith. I too tried ro get a Georgia Belle twice to cross check with my white but all turned out yellow so wrong again.I ordered a Methley and it turned out to be a purple one but not Methley. I now have a Methley. From now on I want to try to buy or swap scions with you my fellow NAFEXERS. 

 

R. D. O'Barr

Zone 7

----- Original Message -----

From: Lon J. Rombough

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:05 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Do I have a white flesh peach?

One place I worked for years ago had a bin of tags for an old blackberry variety they no longer grew. A store with the same name as the old blackberry ordered a large quantity of plants every year and told the nursery to stick the old name on the plants, which they (the store, not the nursery) offered as part of a special promotion every year.

A nursery had an apple tree that bloomed but never set fruit. They propagated a good quantity of trees from the nonbearing tree and whenever they ran out of a variety, the NB tree was substituted. Since it never produced fruit, the customer could never prove the tree wasn't what they ordered.

Sometimes it's the nursery, sometimes it's the retailer.

-Lon Rombough
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On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Donna &/or Kieran wrote:


Sorry Mark, but your theory is backwards to the real situation, as explained
to me by UT's horticulture expert, David Lockwood. He says that when the
nurserys package up their remaining trees and sell them in bulk to the
package stores, the stores say, "Don't put labels on them, we'll put our own
labels on them." Of course, since it's difficult or more like impossible to
tell one variety from another, they just stick on thousands of labels that
say "Bartlett pear" or "Granny Smith apple" and years later all the pears
are Kieffer and all the apples are RD.

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