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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: Van Well nursery
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:36:25 -0600

Alan, have you got stock from them, and if so, how did it work out?

~mIEKAL

(just bought myself a 3 year membership to NAFEX for my birthday...
haven't been an official member since sometime in the 90s but I gain
so much info from this list that I was feeling guilty that I wasn't
chipping in. )



On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Van Well has the advantages you can generally expect from a nursery that
> supplies commercial growers.  A good price on quality trees, true to name
> (both scion and rootstock) and a reliable order and delivery system.  They
> also let you know ahead of time the size of tree you are purchasing and are
> often larger than those from other sources of bare root fruit trees..
>
> The liabilities are that they carry only varieties that are viable for
> commercial production and they are not particularly fluent in the issues
> specific to small home orchard growing to the degree of some companies that
> primarily serve that market- such as Trees of Antiquity or Raintree.
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