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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] NorthStar cherries
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:56:00 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

'North Star' is my favorite pie cherry as well. Reliable, good flavor, heavy
producer & just as you said- a terrific landscape tree. Does very well in
the Southeast as well.

-----Original Message-----
>From: fuwa fuwa usagi <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
>Sent: Jul 4, 2009 4:13 AM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] NorthStar cherries
>
>Gang:
>
>Over the years I have ordered a few NorthStar cherry trees...interesting the
>variability in the trees. There are notable differences in the quality and
>quantity of fruit, in the ripening dates, and in the size of the trees.
>Currently I have 9 trees and two are identical in habit and form, with less
>desirable characteristics than the others. The best of these is in its
>third year and yielded 25 half pints of cherries, averaging 3/4 inch in
>diameter, and about 3/4 the size of typical Bing, left on the tree, the turn
>into a delicious and ridiculously juicy sweet tart flavor and alll this of a
>tree that if 4 ft tall. Amazing.
>
>I cannot sing the praises enough of these tree as landscape specimens and
>for care free maintenance. I have never fertilized mine and the 15 year old
>specimens just keep on producing.
>
>Anyways, back to pitting (using a paper clip, I do about 20 half pints an
>hour).
>
>tfb
>
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