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[Richard Harrison <rharrison922@yahoo.com>]

Doreen,
      Container-growing it reduces drastically the size that the plant has to 
be in order to fruit.
                                                            Richard

--- On Sun, 3/6/11, Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net> wrote:


From: Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Carmine Jewel
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 7:41 PM


I received a small Carmine Jewel plant yesterday at the Chicago Flower & 
Garden Show from Gurney's.  They gave them to members of the press to try, 
and, of course, write about.  They said it was the perfect container fruit, 
but literature that came with the plant states that Carmine Jewel doesn't 
fruit until it's shoulder-high and wide.  That sounds too big for a 
container, more like a plant for a shrub border or to stick in my fenced 
veggie garden.  That's where I have blueberries and cranberries, to keep the 
critters away.

The tiny plant already has green buds, and there is still snow on ground 
here.  So, I guess I'll plant it in a container initially.
Doreen Howard 
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We had terrible problems with fireblight at our farm in east/central VA, but
the Jennybelle serviceberry was wonderful.
never any disease, only the birds were just ferocious for them
I prefer them over blueberries; I really like the almond flavor of the
seeds.
I really wish I could get the same ones again- I almost think I should go
ask the new owners for a start. But I hate to go back there so much.. I know
that they have removed many of my plantings. It's their place now, of
course, but when you graft young trees you just get so attached..
Amy
NC

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Richard MURPHY <murphman108@msn.com> wrote:

>
> Here in New England, if you happen upon a Serviceberry in the woods, it is
> most likely Amelanchier Canadensis.
> The Moose Jockeys grow Amelanchier Alnifolia of various types.
> (Alnifolia means 'has leaves like an Alder')
> The 1000 plants I got from BurntRidge were 'Smoky'.
> The fruit is usually abundant, but rather bland, and it is a Bird Magnet.
> The one unusual and beneficial trait of the fruit it actually the seeds.
> They aren't little rocks like blackberry or grapes.
> They are actually little nuts; you chew them up, and THEY HAVE PROTEIN IN
> THEM !!
> The Indians all knew that Pound for Pound, these berries carried them
> further......
> So, from a Survivalist point of view, Saskatoons stomp all over blueberries
> and most others.
>
> Murph
>
> R A Murphy Jr
>
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