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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

Jim,  I remember a Nafexer in Arkansas who ordered and grafted a bunch of 
persimmon selections, and was quite puzzled that they were no better than 
their wild ones.  I think that the selections were probably a little earlier 
so they got fully ripe up north where the run of the mill clones didn't.  In 
the Tennessee Valley there were a lot of good persimmons, some bad ones too. 
But here they all seem to be blue and inedible till well frosted, and not 
all that good even then.
Let's not forget that blueberries were only domesticated in the last 100 
years, and that all the early varieties were either selections from the wild 
or crosses of wild selections.     Donna