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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

When you say New Jersey, do you mean Rutgers?
-Lon Rombough
NEW grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short, low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. 
A video about The Grape Grower : http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
On Aug 23, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Martha Davis wrote:


>         " And while I'm at it, does anyone know of work to breed hardy plumcots?  Most plumcots and their descendants seem to be from California work, but there's no reason there couldn't be crosses between much hardier plums and apricots.  Perhaps at some northern breeding program."
> -Lon Rombough
There has been some work resulting in numbered selections at the New Jersey breeding program.  Some of these are at the Davis germplasm repository.  I don't know how good they are, but I am testing one or two here.