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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Asian/American Plums
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 9:30 PM

 
> What's worse, this thing about hybrid plum pollination
> is from something I read on the internet:
> http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/dom_fruit/articles/plums.pdf
> It's by some academics at the University of
> Saskatchewan, where I've never even been, so how do I
> know Saskatchewan even exists?

Melissa:

There is pretty good evidence that Saskatchewan exists: as part of North 
America, you can find Saskatchewan on many different maps. It's a big 
Province in Canada just to the North of Montana and North Dakota.  
Saskatchewan should be easy enough to find as it is 80,000 square miles 
larger than Montana and 3x the size of North Dakota. The University of 
Saskatchewan was established in 1909 and is one of Canada's largest post 
secondary institutions.  And Mr. Rick Sawatsky is one of the University's 
foremost fruit experts and researchers.  He has worked on the development and 
release of a number of superior zone 2 hardy fruits, but he is probably most 
famous for his involvement in the development and release of a group of six 
outstanding, tasty, super hardy cherries: Carmine Jewel, Crimson Passion, 
Juliet, Romeo, Valentine, and Cupid.  In addition to this, Mr. Sawatsky and 
his cohorts also have developed some excellent hardy apples, 
honeyberries/haskaps, and
 raspberries, and they also have hazelnuts coming down the pipeline. I really 
can't comment on his expertise on plum pollen, but Mr. Sawatsky's knowledge 
on fruits in general is certainly well known and respected up here.

Sarah
zone 3 Alberta (that's the Canadian province right beside Saskatchewan and 
above Montana)