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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Replying to my own post. Maybe they are prohibited in NY because they 
come from Washington State? Still, I would wonder why certain cultivars 
and not others.

Steve wrote:
>     
> There was a mention of Somerset Seedless grapes recently. I was looking 
> around the web to see who sold them.
> I ended up looking at the Raintree Nursery site (they didn't list 
> Somerset Seedless). I started looking at their list of available cultivars
> http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/searchresults.cfm
> and noticed most of their grapes had some notation such as PROHIB TO NY 
> & CA. Since I live in NY state, I'm wondering when this happened. Does 
> NY (for example) prohibit the sale of certain grape cultivars but allow 
> others? Why?
> Some are prohibited on Oregon but not in NY or CA. Some are prohibited 
> in NY and other states but no problem in OR. Why are some states afraid 
> of some cultivars and other states afraid of different cultivars. Maybe 
> I'm missing something obvious.
>
>
> Steve in the Adirondacks