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Montmorecy is  a wonderful tree but on decent soil it can get large.  Nice 
sized delicious fruit.

I grow 7 Northstars, though I am cutting two down.  They often get larger 
then expected, I was trying to keep mine at 8 and gave up and bought new ones 
to plant further away from the house.
I have had the first 2 Northstars since 1995 0r 1996 and they have never had 
disease issues other than a little brown rot now and gin but nothing like my 
Lapins which almost always gets taken out by brown rot.  NorthStar has 
smaller fruit than Montmorency, however if you let them hang on the tree they 
become less tarts time goes on.  I find them very delicious and spend hours 
pitting) them by hand and then dehydrating them.  And I use the juice (there 
is  lot of it) for syrups and milkshakes.

Northstar makes lovely landscape type tree and I have 5 in my front yard - 
Montmorency, IMO does not make nearly as nice of a landscape tree.  

the fluffy one

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:17:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
Subject: [nafex] sour-cherry varieties
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What are the different opinions on the various commonly available 
sour-cherry varieties:


Danube 
Jubilieum (really a sweet-cherry x sour-cherry hybrid)
Montmorency (really a Nankin-cherry x sour-cherry hybrid)
Northstar
Bali (Evans)


I live in NJ (6b).


I'm going to have Jubileum, Northstar, and Bali (Evans).  Bali is an 
experiment; although many report bad results with it in warm zones as my 
own, Bob Purvis told me his did find under similar circumstances.  I'll 
report back.


I wonder if I should have gotten Danube over Bali; and if Northstar is 
disease-susceptible - that I should have went with that Hungarian cv. 
that starts with S, as a replacement for.


Thanks,
Steve


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