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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

About a quarter century ago I had a temporary job with a local nursery 
for a few weeks. I heard one of the co-owner brothers tell a permanent 
employee to re-lable a batch of Hedelfingen sweet cheerries as Bings, 
because they were going to be shipped to a garden centre at 
Peterborough, where sweet cherries would be most unlikely to fruit if 
they survived, though a Hedelfingen might live a few years.

I think the only solution is to buy from a nursery to which their fruit 
tree business is important, and which is concerned about their 
reputation (expects to be in business a long time, relies largely on 
word-of-mouth advertising) and which is likely to have a significant 
fraction of knowledgeable customers and repeat customers. It's 
unfortunate that the recent postal service changes have handicapped this 
class of suppliers.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, sherwin wrote:

>           Douglas,
>
>           Another problem not mentioned with big box stores is
> mislabeling of varieties.

[snip]
>                                             Sherwin Dubren