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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Where did you see a picture?

I was in Germany this year during strawberry season, and I was interested to 
see that German strawberries have a different shape than American 
strawberries. Oh, and they were delicious. They also command a large premium 
in the (German) market over the larger, flavorless imports that they also get 
from sunnier parts of the EU, like Spain. My guess is that good strawberries 
will always be local strawberries, as good strawberries don't travel well.


Ginda
Eastern MA, zone 6


On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:36 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> Ah, yes, I read too quickly.  Thanks for the correction.
> 
> The pic of the berries makes them look kind of irregular & misshapen.
> Perhaps another reason why it fell out of commercial appeal. The ones
> in the photo anyway don't have the characteristic strawberry shape.
> 
> ~mIEKAL
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> wrote:
>> mIEKAL, she said that NCGR sent her *a runner* from one of the 3 plants
>> they had.
>> 
>> Doug Woodard
>> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada