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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Melissa Kacalanos asked, "Are these the raspberries being discussed, at the 
bottom of this page?
http://www.sln.potsdam.ny.us/raspberries.html";


   Yes, that is the raspberry that I developed.  They are buying tissue 
cultured plants from the Tissue Culturing company I have a security 
agreement with but I don't expect to ever see a dime of royalties.  I'd have 
to sue to get anything and the small number of plants being sold wouldn't 
pay for a lawsuit at 15 cents per plant.
   If you live in a growing zone where you can successfully grow catalog 
variety of black raspberry, you may not want to buy the Pequot Black 
Raspberry.  It won't give you huge berries.  I'm told that The Pequot has 
exceedingly more flavor than the others and some say it bears more berries. 
I don't know because I can't grow the catalog varieties (they don't ripen 
here is zone 3); this is why I developed the Pequot.  The Pequot Black 
Raspberry is intended for those Northern growers who are unable to grow the 
catalog varieties.
   The other fact to consider is St. Lawrence Nursery is selling for over 
double what I sell them for.................when I have any to sell.  Last 
year's drought did in my new plants while I concentrated on efforts to keep 
the parent plants watered.  In a normal year I sell about a thousand plants. 
This year I'll have about one hundred and most of those were sold last Fall.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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