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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

I hereby nominate Sarah to be Grand Germplasm Curator of the North. You have 
a real ark up there.

Oh, and thanks, Sarah, for the honeyberry seeds. Although for such an early 
fruit, they still require an ironic amount of patience, as the seedlings are 
very slow-growing. You sent more seeds than I had room for, so I shared them 
with 3 other gardeners in my area.

Getting back to gov't germplasm stinginess, I can imagine a day where amateur 
gardeners are so well organized, via the web, that we could conveniently find 
and request just about any grafting wood we want from our fellow amateurs. We 
can do that now of course, but I can see it getting easier with better 
organization. At some point, gardeners might be so well organized, there will 
be no need for these government germplasm banks.

As long as we're paying for these banks with our tax dollars, though, they'd 
better distribute stuff to us.

Melissa

--- On Fri, 4/2/10, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Availability of grafting wood-my tree list for future 
> reference
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 4:57 PM
> I love the idea!  If you can't
> beat em', join em'!
> 
> I have a huge collection that hopefully will survive up
> here so that I can share it.