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

Hi David,

I'm not writing off CCG!  Part of my current collection and even grafting 
material this year is from them.  Margie is a lovely lady and she very 
happily sends out a hard copy of all CCG lists to anyone who inquires. 
However, the lack of varietal information is a definite drawback to the full 
utilization of their accession collections.  My main point of contention with 
CCG is that I can buy the Morden cultivars at any nursery/Canadian Tire in 
the area these days, but CCG doesn't carry most of the varieties that even I 
have accumulated in the last 3 years.  They focus on Eastern/less hardy 
varieties.  I still haven't been able to get my hands on some of the trees 
that used to be offered by the now closed nurseries and I also have only one 
tree of most of my varieties so I could loose perfectly hardy varieties too.

I will have to inquire about Scandinavia cultivars.  Thanks for the note.

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB

> Sarah, I wouldn't write off the
> Canadian Clonal Genebank quite so quickly.  They will
> have all the Morden cultivars. (I note that you have a number of
> these already).  I know that they also 
> have a number of cultivars from Scandinavia, (which will be
> hardy in Zone 3).  Check with 
> Margie Luffman.  (They have never gotten around to
> putting their holdings on line, and I am 
> not sure there is even a paper copy of what they have, but