North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

There are some interesting remarks on Bernie Nikolai's website at

<http://members.shaw.ca/BNikolai/apple_notes.html>

also a little stuff at

<http://www.calgaryarea.com/gardening/calgary_garden10.htm>

also note Bernie's link to

<http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/NAFEX/message-archives/old/msg00811.html> 


Regarding the last, the late Isaac Brock Lucas grew apples on M9 and 
pears on Quince A in a walled garden at Markdale, Ontario in Zone 4 
-with reliable heavy snow cover.

This material may be useful to home growers in cold area generally.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario